Job opportunities

[hotwine]

There are many options available, depending on which part of the wine business you'd like to work in. For example, if you would like to learn grape-growing, you could work for room and board and little or no pay for a family vineyard in your preferred region. They would also likely teach you at least the basics of wine-making. (Beware of winsome daughters who want to practice their English...) If you would like to learn the distribution end of the trade, you could try to land a job with one of the retired GIs over there who stayed on after separation from service to buy wines from producers and sell to exchanges' liquor shops (Class VI stores) and officers' and NCO clubs. If you would like to learn wine retail, you could try to get a job in a wine shop there, and such a job on post or base at the Class VI store, or the clubs, would be a possibility. Or work in a winery's hospitality room, and if they don't currently have one, offer to set one up for them for a commission on sales. Lots of possibilities, with your language skills.