I'm a designer exploring this question with wine educators. What if we could build tools that feel like natural extensions of your expertise instead of replacements for your methods?
I kept hearing brilliant wine educators mention similar challenges in conversations:
I spend more time juggling between wine maps, atlases, and online resources during a single lesson.I'll spend an hour just organizing maps and figuring out how to show students regional relationships.Flat wine maps show boundaries, but they don't help students understand why Burgundy's hillsides matter or how Napa's valley floor relates to the mountains above it.As a designer, I got curious: What would need to be true for technology to actually enhance wine education instead of complicating it?
So I started experimenting. And asking more questions.
And how I think we can work on them
Through conversations with wine educators, we've built an interactive platform that enhances rather than replaces traditional teaching methods.
This platform represents my commitment to building something that feels like a natural extension of great teaching.
The question I keep asking: How can we make this even better for educators and students?
What We Need: More educators willing to experiment and share honest feedback about what actually helps vs. what sounds good in theory.
For personal wine discovery and self-directed learning
For wine educators enhancing their teaching