Traci Dutton

Sommelier, Wine Educator, Writer, Les Dames d’Escoffier

Sonoma County Chapter

Traci Dutton is a beverage, food and hospitality expert based in the Napa Valley. With over 35 years of experience as a sommelier, consumer and professional educator, writer and beverage specialist, she currently teaches at the Culinary Institute of America's California Campus and the Napa Valley College. Additional projects include specialized tasting work for a prominent Napa Valley based trade association and judging over a dozen international wine and spirits competitions annually, which allow her to taste, conservatively estimated, 7500 wines and spirits each year.

Building relationships in all areas of the beverage industry, creating and tracking trends and shifting tastes, and honing her service and hospitality skills are the foundation of her work ethic. Spirits, mixology, dining room management, food and beverage pairing and the practice of mindful tasting skills are also subjects she enjoys teaching but she loves to accept any challenge to bring an honest, fresh and enthusiastic point of view to what's in your glass and on your plate.