Join us as we explore the perfect pairing that is wine and florals.
Guided by winemaker Virginia Mitchell, taste three floral-inspired wines while you take in the aromas of matching floral fragrances. Then, inspired by the wine tasting, follow along as floral designer Melissa Palmer demonstrates how to incorporate those floral notes into a lovely floral arrangement. Create your own autumnal floral arrangement utilizing the same flowers featured in the wine tasting and take your design home to savor.
Location
Grove Studio 108
Instructors
Virginia Mitchell and Melissa Palmer
Virginia Mitchell is a local Winemaking Consultant and Wine Educator. She is a Certified Specialist of Wine (CSW) with the Society of Wine Educators, and she continues to broaden her knowledge of local and global wines while pursuing Level 4, Diploma with the Wine & Spirits Education Trust (dipWSET). Mitchell earned a Food Science degree from Penn State University where she assisted the Penn State Extension Enologist with various wine research projects and educational programming. Following graduation, she worked at Two Hands Wines in South Australia along with multiple wineries across Pennsylvania. She was the Lead Winemaker and Winery Manager at Galer Estate Vineyard and Winery from 2014 to 2023. Mitchell currently lives in Kennett Square with her husband and two children.
Melissa Palmer trained under Gregor Lerch in Germany and attended the Boerma Institute in the Netherlands, studying Dutch Master Design. Palmer teaches floral classes as an instructor at Delaware Valley University, and she is the educational director of Bucks Beautiful, a non-profit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She travels around the area filming interesting topics dealing with nature and horticulture and writes articles on gardening and floral design.
Palmer is a Master Gardener, master beekeeper, and a mason bee specialist; as a proponent for beneficial insects, she lectures on the topic. Palmer owns her own businesses, Florum Flowers and Petaling Posies, where she grows and designs cut flowers on her New Jersey farm.
