Certified sommelier-led wine education
Learn wine through daily tasting practice.
Daily tastings, visual frameworks, producer context, and practical tools for bottles, menus, and pairings.
- CMSCertified Sommelier-built
- 4,300+practice questions
- 6,500+producer profiles
Try a question.
Pick a topic. Try one question. Keep going if it clicks.
One atlas. Many frameworks.
12 chapters. Visual frameworks. Start anywhere.
Understanding Sparkling Wine
Choose a lens. Watch four styles respond.
Behind every bottle,
a real palate.
I'm Gina: Certified Sommelier, WSET 3 Distinction, former Google PM.
Sommplicity blends tested frameworks, real tasting experience, and practical tools.
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Wine is confusing.
Sommplicity isn't.
Sommplicity started as a study notebook for the Certified Sommelier exam.
Structured, visual wine education. No gatekeeping. No pretension.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
Professional wine education, made clear.
Gina Biernacki,
certified sommelier.
Certified Sommelier (CMS, 2022), WSET Level 3 Distinction holder, former product manager at Google.
Sommelier-built frameworks using standard wine-world logic, made easier to use.
Methodical frameworks,
brought to the wine world.
Twenty years of training in consulting, business school and product management. The same tools for clarity, structure and learning systems, applied to a field that still leans on memorization.
MBA and Product Manager at Google
Consulting at Bain, MBA from Chicago Booth, PM at Google. The toolkit: frameworks, decomposition, learning loops.
WSET Level 3, Distinction
Advanced wine knowledge, the way the industry teaches it. Memorization-heavy, framework-light. Noticed the gap.
Certified Sommelier, CMS
Earned the pin. Complex domains get learned faster when the structure is visible.
Harvest at Puy Savage, Bordeaux
A lifelong dream. Worked the harvest with a small Bordeaux producer. Ground-truth for everything taught from a textbook.
Sommplicity and the SF community
Pop-ups, private events, and corporate gatherings across the Bay Area. Frameworks first, gatekeeping never.
Private events. Bay Area events.
Private tastings, corporate events, bread and wine pairings, and consulting in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Private Tastings
4 to 20 guests in your home or venue. Themed around any region, grape, or style.
Corporate Events
Sessions at Google, Xfinity, and across the Bay Area tech ecosystem.
Wine Consulting
List development, training, and pairing menus for restaurants and hospitality groups.
