LDEI Sacramento Speakers Series WOMEN IN WINE & SAKE

Experience wine and sake in a brand new way - a way that celebrates personal discovery, sensory exploration, and authentic observations.  You’ll walk away from this event with insight and experiences that are bound to boost your confidence and make you feel like the most interesting person in any room!

Featuring Dame Carrie Boyle, a wine professional, educator, and author of The Mindful Glass: Hands-On Wine Lab and Dame Tayler Pecha, certified sake sommelier and the beverage manager for Omakase Por Favor, and hosted by Dame Amy Myrdal Miller, 2024-2025 president of LDEI Sacramento and president of Farmer’s Daughter Consulting.

Join us for this fun, interactive event designed for wine drinkers, sake sippers, and anyone curious about the treasures & magic that these beverages hold.  We’ll taste, talk, play and share!

Your ticket price includes a glass of wine when you arrive, food catered by Bella Bru Café, and guided wine and sake tasting experiences designed by two passionate, masterful beverage educators. Bonus: Every attendee will get an opportunity to learn if they are a supertaster, an average taster, or a non-taster.

Ticket Price: $50 in advance, $65 at the door

Ticket proceeds benefit the Les Dames d’Escoffier International (LDEI) Sacramento Chapter Scholarship & Philanthropy Fund, which supports women in our community seeking training and career advancement in food, wine, hospitality, agriculture, and related fields.

Event Schedule

5:30-6:00PM Registration, Networking & Nibbling

6:00-6:05PM Welcome & Opening Remarks

6:05-6:20PM Speakers Share Their Origin Stories

6:20-7:00PM Wine & Sake Tasting & Appreciation Experience

7:00-7:25PM Q&A with the Speakers

7:25-7:30PM Closing Remarks

7:30-8:00PM Networking

SPEAKER BIOS

Carrie Boyle is a wine professional, educator, and author with more than 25 years of experience spanning wine retail, buying, wholesale sales, and education. She is the author of The Mindful Glass: Hands-On Wine Lab, an experiential wine book designed to make wine education more inclusive, engaging, and joyful through hands-on learning, sensory exploration, and meaningful connection.

Throughout her career, Carrie has worked closely with independent winemakers, brokers, restaurants, and retailers, building programs that connect people to wine through storytelling, education, and shared experience. She has served as a regional wine buyer and General Manager for Total Wine & More in Northern California, founded and operated two independent wine shops, produced a region-wide wine festival, and currently represents boutique wine portfolios across the Sacramento region.

Carrie is a Certified Specialist of Wine (CSW). Her work is rooted in the belief that food and wine are powerful tools for connection, curiosity, and community—best enjoyed with intention, generosity, and a sense of play.

Tayler Pecha is Sacramento's only certified Sake Sommelier and Sake Scholar, a former educator turned hospitality expert who has spent more than a decade turning beverage knowledge into unforgettable experiences. Her journey began in the classroom, and that teaching instinct never left; it simply found a better home behind the bar.

After building the acclaimed sake and beverage program at Omakase Por Favor, Tayler earned a reputation for curating thoughtful, high-performing lists and guiding teams through the often-overlooked world of sake with clarity and genuine enthusiasm. She blends deep technical knowledge—fermentation science, regional nuance, and pairing philosophy—with the kind of warmth and storytelling that makes complex subjects feel like a great conversation.

Twice recognized as one of Style Magazine's Best Bartenders and celebrated across multiple bar programs throughout the greater Sacramento region, Tayler continues to grow Sacramento's sake community through her education series, private events, and work as a portfolio representative with Fifth Taste. Her goal has always been the same: to make sake the most exciting thing in the room.

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