CIA Facilities: Designed for Wine

The nerve center of wine education at the CIA is the multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies. Equipped with two tastings theaters, every detail of this technologically advanced facility exists to support and optimize your wine education experience.

In the Rudd Center's Napa Valley Vintners Association Tasting Theatre and Viking Range Corporation Tasting Theatre, you'll find everything you need to evaluate wines. Each seat has a lighted panel for accurate visual wine evaluation and a private spittoon-sink for tastings. Both theaters in the Rudd Center are also configured for video and Internet presentations, further enhancing your enological learning experience.

Images of the Rudd Center
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