Meet The Owner Series: Volume 2 – Vinously Speaking

This is my first time attending a Meet the Owners Unilocal elite event. I have to say I enjoyed it very much!
Meet the Owners are more intimate events for a small selected group of elite Unilocalers to meet and talk to the owners of a business. No guests are allowed. I had the pleasure to be chosen for this event. This time, we got to meet the owners of two aspiring/​inspiring young ladies who opened their eclectic wine shop and blog.
They had an amazing story to share with us. One of them spent a few years studying wine business in Paris. How cool is that?! The ladies sure know a lot about wine. I learned so much from them including the 20 – 20 rule and how to sample wines. Awesome tips! We got to taste several amazing rosé wines from France and California.
I mingled with a few elite Unilocalers and also bought a bottle of dessert wine to take home. I wish we had food pairing though but that event was cancelled due to the heavy rain a few weeks ago. As Melissa D. said, I am reserving the final star for their wine bar next door!

What a fantastic event!
I now understand why everyone was raving about the «Meet the Owner» event… how cool is getting to meet the owners and share in their experience AT THIER PLACE!
And what a pleasure to meet and get to know the owners of this shop. Melissa and Ceci have such a beautiful way about them! I can’t wait for an open Saturday to go back and enjoy one of their wine and food pairings. Both bottles of wine I bought after the event were a big hit at home ~ score!
They are working to open a wine bar alongside their shop… how amazing! We need a great laid back ‘real people’ wine bar in this town.

Rudy said it all, and I’m late, but I just wanted to write a note to say THANKS, GLORIA! for securing a Meet The Owner (s) event for us so we could be dazzled by Ceci and Melissa’s awesome dream being realized. I’m soooo happy to have met them and look forward to helping them expand!

This was a great event I got to meet CeCi and Melissa the owners of Vinously Speaking: An Eclectic Wine Shop & Blog. They pretty much gave us a Wine Tasting 101 session. They taught us how to identify, pair, select, and taste wine. It was really fun learning that the pleasure of tasting wine comes from smelling it. Tonight we tasted some Rosé wines. I can best describe them as having a more fruity, berry taste. CeCi went over all the steps of tasting a wine from swirling it the glass to mix it up, to taking a drink. If you ask me up until this point when I would drink wine I would just drink it straight from the bottle. I know I know No Class, but hey I didn’t know better.

Vinously Speaking is real cool wine shop selling mostly brands I and probably you never heard of. CeCi and Melissa want to serve and educate San Antonio about wine. They want to bring to joy of drinking wine (the right way) to San Antonio. I really like this place for one: it’s dedicated to only selling wine, second the great prices. I didn’t see any bottle over $ 30, and most of them are under $ 20. Vinously Speaking hopes to expand to a full wine bar and restaurant, and need your help to do it go to
to learn how you can help. I really enjoyed seeing my fellow Elite Unilocalers have fun with wine. Big thanks to Gloria for putting this event together. 5 Stars for Meet The Owner Series: Volume 2 — Vinously Speaking. I don’t always drink wine, but when do I will go to Vinously Speaking. Drink Wine my friends!