WineFUNdamentals™ is a wine education seminar company which offers in-depth instruction on the wine regions of the world.  Developed by Roxanne Langer as a result of years of wine tasting training for wine buyers, wine writers, restaurateurs and consumers, WineFUNdamentals™ provides wine programs for both the novice and the wine connoisseur.

Langer, a twenty-year veteran of the California and Pacific Northwest wine industry, has conducted wine seminars throughout the United States, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, France, the United Kingdom, Canada and Mexico. She has researched and visited the vineyards and wine cellars of Austria, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Switzerland, as well as attended wine trade-only shows through out Europe, Asia and North America.

Prior to WineFUNdamentals, Langer was the Marketing Director for the Napa Valley Vintners Association where she was responsible for organizing trade and consumer tastings and seminars throughout the US, Canada, Germany and the UK for member wineries of the NVVA.

As the Executive Director of the Northwest Wine Coalition (Seattle, Washington) Langer represented the wineries of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington in Northern Europe and Canada.  Langer’s responsibilities included organizing trade tastings and wine seminars in Europe and Canada and facilitating wine buyer and wine press trips to the Pacific Northwest wine region.

In her position as Marketing Director for Rutherford Hill winery, she was involved in creating the branded image of Rutherford Hill as the best-known winery for producing “merlot.”

A graduate of the University of the Pacific, Langer wrote her Master’s Thesis on Wine. She has attended the University of Davis Community Education Wine Program and obtained her Higher Certificate from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust of the United Kingdom.   Langer resides with her husband and two children in the wine country of the Sierra Nevada Foothills and teaches wine courses at Sierra Community College.