Reflecting on My First Year of Wine School

Now that all the wines are safely in barrel and assignments have been turned in, I’ve had some time to reflect on this whirlwind of a year. I still can’t believe I left my life as a sommelier in Chicago to move to the other side of the world and study winemaking. My biggest fear when I left was that delving into the science of wine would negatively impact how I viewed and experienced it. I...