Renee started her wine career managing large accounts for Wine.com in Berkeley. She later poured wine for The Sonoma Enoteca on the Sonoma Plaza (now Pangloss) to better interface with visitors and started Gourmet Food & Wine Tours after she and her daughter took their first food tour in Chicago with a TasteBud Tour in the Spring of 2013. Gourmet Food and Wine Tours boasts of four amazing foodie locations in the north bay, including Yountville, Sausalito, Tiburon and Sonoma.