Tacoma · Seattle · The South Sound
Let’s pour something extraordinary
Sommelier-led tastings, classes and wine travel — for teams, for tables, and for anyone who’d rather remember the evening than endure it.
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What are you in the mood for?
Events
Corporate tastings that people actually talk about afterwards, private dinners at your own table, and public classes you can just buy a ticket to. Tacoma, Seattle, and everywhere in the South Sound.
Travel
Small-group wine journeys through the regions worth crossing an ocean for. Next up: eight days down the Rhône in spring 2027, with me pouring the whole way.
Shop
Seasonal wine boxes, curated four times a year around whatever is genuinely drinking beautifully right now. Buy the one you want. No subscription, nothing to cancel.
Nobody remembers the slide deck. They remember the Champagne
Who’s Pouring
Twenty years, one very good palate
I’m Kat Shapiro. Twenty years in restaurants, wine sales and on the floor — and I still think the best part of this job is what happens to a table when the right bottle lands on it.
DipWSET
The WSET Diploma — one step below Master of Wine. I also teach Level 2 here in Tacoma.
Champagne Master
Formally certified in Champagne. It’s my favourite thing to pour and the thing I’m asked for most.
20 years
Restaurants, sales, and the floor. I read a room as well as I read a label.
Open to everyone
What’s on
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WSET Level 2 in Wine — Tacoma Weekend Intensive | Oct 3–4, 2026
Tickets: WSET Level 2 in Wine — Tacoma Weekend Intensive | Oct 3–4, 2026Sep 27 (virt) & Oct 3–4 (in-person) · Copper & Salt Northwest Kitchen, Rustin · Enrollment through WSET
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The Blind Dog
Tickets: The Blind DogThu 22 Oct · Barrel Dogs, Buckley · 6pm-8pm · $60
The seasonal box
Four times a year, no strings
Every season I pick a handful of bottles that are drinking beautifully right now — small growers, real places, nothing you’ll find stacked in a grocery aisle. Tasting notes for each one, written by me, in plain language.
Buy the box you want and stop there. No subscription, no auto-renewal, nothing to cancel at 11pm on a Tuesday.
$99 Three bottles
$235 Six bottles
Wine Travel
Come with me
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Burgundy & Provence, June 2027
See the trip: Burgundy & Provence, June 2027Eight days sailing north from Arles to Lyon, through Provence, the northern Rhône, Beaujolais and into Burgundy. Four of the best wine regions in France in one week, and you only unpack once. June 29 to July 6, 2027.
The list
Pack your bags, pour the wine
First access to trips, insider tastings, and the stories in between — starting with Burgundy & Provence.