SAPERICA’s mission is to promote Saperavi and other Georgian grape varieties along with Georgian gastronomy and culture in the Finger Lakes, NY and around the U.S., by organizing and facilitating educational seminars and exchange programs between the regions, for wine and culinary professionals and enthusiasts.
FLAVORS of GOERGIA seminar is presented by Darra Goldstein
Guest speaker @ the 1st annual Saperavi Festival in 2022
Finger Lakes, NY
Author of The Georgian Feast cookbook
Darra Goldstein is the founding editor of the journal Gastronomica and
the author of six award-winning cookbooks, including The Georgian Feast,
which won the 1994 IACP Julia Child Award for Cookbook of the Year.
Darra has consulted for the Council of Europe on using food as a tool
for tolerance and diversity and has held distinguished fellowships in food
studies at the University of Toronto and the University of Melbourne. She
currently sits on the board of the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy
and the Culinary Arts and is a member of the advisory “Kitchen Cabinet”
of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. In 2020
she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International
Association of Culinary Professionals.
CO-FOUNDERS OF SAPERICA (non-profit organization):
Erika Frey is a wine educator and consultant with over 25 industry certifications including Certified Sommelier and the WSET Diploma in Wine and Spirits. She is the Assistant Manager and Wine Buyer at Winestone, a boutique wine shop in Chestnut Hill, MA , where she specializes in building awareness and interest in lesser known wine regions and categories. Erika is also a WSET Certified Educator in Wine and Spirits. She teaches all levels of the WSET Wines program for the Commonwealth Wine School and Grape Experience. Recently, she has also collaborated with the Khetsuriani Sommelier and Wine School in the Republic of Georgia to offer the WSET Level 3 qualification. Erika has been invited as a speaker for Georgian Wine House, Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery, FLXcursion, the Ghvino Forum and Cornell University.
Lasha Tsatava is a native of the country of Georgia where evidence of winemaking has been found dating back 8,000 years. Although he has spent more than half of his life in the United States, his passion for Georgian wine, gastronomy and culture is as strong as ever. He has been awarded an honorary status of Georgian Gastronomy Ambassador 2021 and completed his WSET Diploma in Wine in the same year. He is the first Georgian to earn a WSET Diploma. Lasha also completed the Italian Wine Maestro program and became a French Wine Scholar. Lasha has been invited as a speaker at Ghvino Forum, Dr Konstantin Frank Winery and Cornell University. He has been serving as one of the Directors of the Boston Sommelier Society since 2019 and is involved in promoting the wines of Georgia around Boston and beyond. In 2022, Lasha co-founded a non-profit corporation, Saperica, to promote Saperavi and other Georgian grape varieties, Georgian gastronomy and culture in the Finger Lakes, NY and around the U.S.
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