Originally from the Chicago area, Robin Kick MW currently lives in Lugano, Switzerland where she works as a freelance buying/export consultant, wine judge, educator and journalist. She changed career paths in 1998 when she left her teaching position at the Université de Nice to study wine. Robin has held a number of different positions including Wine Auction Specialist for Christie’s in Beverly Hills, California and Fine Wine Buyer for Goedhuis & Co., a London-based wine merchant with an award-winning Burgundy list. While in London, she studied at the Institute of Masters of Wine, graduating in 2014 following the successful completion of her dissertation, An Investigation of Whole Cluster Fermentation in Pinot Noir in the Côte d’Or.
