Thanks for stopping by! I created Wine for Normal People as a podcast, wine education, and media company with the single goal of providing well-researched and accurate wine content that distills hard-to-understand concepts into clearly communicated, fun loving podcasts, classes, videos, and live events for anyone who is eager to learn about wine.
I want to teach you about wine so you can make your own judgments and feel great about your opinions because they are based on fact, and based on your ability to clearly articulate your ideas about wine. Armed with knowledge, wine becomes fun and fascinating, not boring and exclusive.
You should be able to understand your hobby, do wine travel, and feel great about wine without having to choke down thousand-page wine encyclopedias or take classes meant for industry pros. This kind of communication stops many people from loving wine. Honest conversation allows you to get wine, and then makes you want to know more.
My brand of opinion, frankness, and injection of New York-style humor is not for everyone. The information is fact but the interpretation is opinion and it is interwoven in all I do. Born and bred on Long Island, New York, my parents spent a lot of time schlepping me into Manhattan and Brooklyn, their native homes, so I got the best of both worlds growing up — the burbs and the city.
After majoring in international politics, taking a semester in Italy where I learned to love wine and food , and being teased enough to get rid of my awesome LI accent, I graduated from Wesleyan University CT and started my career in high-tech in Boston. Nevertheless, my love of wine persisted. Trips to the wine shop often yielded awesomely poor but hilarious results, so my sister and I finally took a wine tasting and appreciation course at the Boston Center for Adult Education.
