Being a harvest intern is hard work. There are many weeks where you're working 12-14 hours per day, 6 days per week. That's a lot of time spent on your feet and all of the bending can hurt your back. When my feet start to hurt, my good mood fades quickly and it took me weeks to figure out how to ...
Wine Industry
How to Get a Job in the Wine Industry
When I was getting my bachelor's degree, I used to work at my school's career center. By the end of the school year, I had reviewed and corrected over 500 resumes and 100 cover letters. After discovering wine in Italy and taking a wine class during my last semester of college, I leveraged my career ...
How to Pass WSET Level 3
If you've stumbled across this post, it's possible that you're freaking out about the WSET level 3 test or you're figuring out whether or not level 3 is for you. Take a deep breath because everything is going to be fine. As many of you know, I took the WSET level 3 course online with Napa Valley ...
Wine Scores: Good or Bad?
Let me start off this post by saying that everything in it is my opinion, but I hope you'll stick around to read about my point of view on wine scores. Have you ever wandered around the store and seen a bottle with a sticker that said 90 points? A lot of the times that sticker will say the ...
Is WineShop At Home an MLM?
Fortunately for us anti-MLMers, I'm back with another MLM post. Unfortunately for this particular multi-level marketing company, I am back with another MLM post. It's time to talk about WineShop At Home. An obligatory recap: MLMs are essentially legal pyramid schemes. Multi-level marketing ...
Is Traveling Vineyard an MLM?
Has anyone heard of Traveling Vineyard? I thought I hadn't until recently. I remembered I literally mentioned this MLM in my "Wine MLMs You Should Avoid" post. But just the other day, someone was telling me about REWINED which is by the company, Traveling Vineyard. So I was thinking, 'What the hell ...