About Chicago Wine School

Chicago Wine School offers online wine courses leading to certification from the National Wine School. Owners Michael & Eliza Lewis opened the school on July 2nd, 2022, fulfilling their dream of opening a wine school.

Originally from Illinois, the couple worked together at a notable university in Oregon. Their innate love of wine led them back to Northern California to explore opportunities in the wine trade. They spent several summers interning at Napa Valley wineries. During the winter months, they worked towards their sommelier pins.

When Michael was offered a consulting job at a Fortune 500 company on the East Coast, they moved to Southern New Jersey. They continued their wine education by earning their advanced sommelier pins and teacher certifications from the highly regarded Wine School of Philadelphia.

Their dream of founding their own Wine School took a major step forward when Eliza was offered a teaching fellowship in Chicago in 2019, which the pandemic postponed until 2021. During this time, Eliza and Michael developed programs with the National Wine School.

Our Team

We started as a group of East & West Coast professionals who shared a love of wine. Our team includes business owners, winemakers, journalists, programmers, lawyers, professors, and sommeliers. Together, our goal is to create a space that shares the most informative articles on all aspects of wine to help educate and expand our reader’s knowledge of the wine world.

We aim to bring you high-quality, well-researched content to further your wine knowledge. Wine & Sommelier is an informational site that provides in-depth content about the world of wine. Our articles cover a wide range of topics, including wine storage, how-to guides, wine event companies, innovative apps, and more.