Paula Moulton is co-founder and CEO of A Sip Away. She is a viticulturist, award-winning winemaker, and published author with over 25 years of experience in the wine industry. She has worked with wine talent such as Joel Peterson of Ravenswood Winery, Mike Benziger of Benziger Family Winery, Jean-Luc Thunevin (Bordeaux’s Bad Boy wine), and Phil Coturri of Enterprise Vineyards. She was recently one of 20 students invited to spend a year in Paris, France studying wine management at Le Cordon Bleu. Paula has appeared on the Today Show, CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, CRN, and other major media outlets as an author and wine industry leader. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Rhetoric, an AS in viticulture from Santa Rosa Junior College, and a Wine Management degree from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, France. She currently lives in Sonoma, California.

The second edition of Seasons Among the Vines has added enlightening pieces of the international world of wine exposing some of the most riveting old world style secrets to the new world. After spending nearly ten years of her life rebuilding her world after her husband is killed in a car accident and three days before the release of her first edition of Seasons Among the Vines in 2003, Paula Moulton decides to embark on an enchanting and courageous adventure enrolling in a ten-month wine management program with twenty other international students in the pilot wine program at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Leaving her home in Sonoma as her third and last child goes off to college, she not only faces the struggles of living in a foreign country, but experiences the rigors of the French academic system complete with a one month stint in Bergerac as a cellar rat and a six-week internship as a sommelier in a prestigious restaurant off Le Champs Elysees. This second edition of Seasons Among the Vines is spunky and informative; interspersed throughout is still advice for weekend gardeners and wine-loving suburbanites on how to make wine at home, but Moulton has not only added everything a reader could ever need to know about how to smell, swirl, and taste wine, but all the ins and outs to successful food and wine pairing, and how to make intelligent decisions when choosing wine. From international escapades, to unforeseen wine disasters, to trial and error with food and wine pairing, events both amusing and rueful make for a bona fide picture of what it means to follow a dream even after suffering great loss.