Meet Autumn, our Rochester instructor in wines!
- kmrockstad
- Jul 29
- 2 min read
July 29, 2025
Autumn is our newest instructor in wines and will be teaching WSET Levels 1 and 2. She's located in the Rochester, MN area and we're thrilled to have her on our team! She holds a WSET Level 3, is a DipWSET candidate and an Albariño Ambassador. Below, she'll tell you a little about herself:
"My love of wine began when I was in college in Switzerland, sipping French wine with my family and feeling like I had just uncovered an amazing secret. Fast forward and I became a golf pro running a golf course in the Chicago suburbs. I was asked to help with the wine list, and voilà—wine came back into my life, pairing perfectly with the swing of a club.
Now, I own The Adventurous Sip, a wine education business that’s on a mission to turn confused shoppers into confident sippers. I take curious tasters from swirling and sipping to sparking "aha!" moments that make people fall in love with what’s in the glass. From golf events to guided tastings, I make wine less intimidating and a lot more fun. Because wine should be curious, not confusing.
Favorites lately: I LOVE Etna wines (both red and white), Patagonia Pinot Noir, Riesling, Austrian and German bubbles, and Champagne will always have my heart.
Fun Facts: I was born and grew up in Albuquerque, NM and I love cooking New Mexican Food because I can't find it in Minnesota. I played golf with Annika Sorenstam. I had the awesome pleasure of assisting on some wine curation and got to evaluate some Bordeaux wines from the 1980s to determine if they were salvageable after being transported on a U-Haul from Arizona (luckily some of the wine survived the trip)."
