NJ to NZ
Philly boy goes to wine school, moves to New Zealand, and becomes a winemaker. Great little pick-me-up story from the Burlington Country Times. Good read for all of those folks out there who want to just say “fuck it” and get out of the rat race… or step out of the unemployment line.
His own journey took him on a visit to Italy while attending Holy Cross High School, to Belgium as an exchange student at Catholic University of America, and then to the Bronx, N.Y., for a post-college stint managing a touring rock band. After considering politics and philosophy as careers, he decided the former was too dirty and the latter too impractical.
So, Brennan returned to McCrossen’s as a bartender and manager, and took some classes at the Wine School of Philadelphia. In 2008, he enrolled in the Centre of Viticulture and Wine at Eastern Institute of Technology in Hawke’s Bay and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in winemaking.
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