My first official wine job was as sales employee in a local wine retail shop. Countless are the times customers kind of knew what they were looking for, but just couldn’t remember the exact name of the grape or wine. Some of them recalled just part of the label text. Like the young lady asking […]
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If you had asked me 10 years ago if I had any plans of offering wine courses online, I would have called you crazy. Back then it was standard to offer classroom wine courses where students were taught about both the theory and the tasting of wine. As I believe goes for many subjects that […]
‘How did you end up in the wine industry?’. This is the question I have been asked the most over the past 14 years after people learn of my job. Let me tell you how it happened. Wine had been part of my diet for several years already, but it wasn’t until I had started […]