Maxine Borcherding
After many years in catering, restaurant management, and consulting to the hospitality industry, Maxine Borcherding changed her focus to hospitality education, where she has been teaching hospitality students and wine enthusiasts for 22 years.
“The journey that led me into a serious study of wine was a teaching assignment. A class included three lectures on growing grapes, making wine, and pairing wine with food. I’d been drinking and enjoying wine for about 40 years- but there’s a huge gulf between liking to drink wine and having the knowledge and credibility to teach it. So, in self defense, I took a class; and a funny thing happened. I fell in love with wine, and with everything about wine. I had to learn more.”
Since that first class, Maxine has graduated from the International Sommelier Guild Sommelier Diploma Program, has become a French Wine Scholar through the Wine Scholar Guild, a Spanish Wine Educator through the Wine Academy of Spain, and a Wine Location Specialist with distinction from the Center for Wine Origins.
She is a co-founder of Taste and Compare Academy of Wine, Spirits and Food; retired as a Lead Chef Instructor at the Oregon Culinary Institute, and is looking forward to her next adventure: living and exploring wine in Portugal.
“The journey that led me into a serious study of wine was a teaching assignment. A class included three lectures on growing grapes, making wine, and pairing wine with food. I’d been drinking and enjoying wine for about 40 years- but there’s a huge gulf between liking to drink wine and having the knowledge and credibility to teach it. So, in self defense, I took a class; and a funny thing happened. I fell in love with wine, and with everything about wine. I had to learn more.”
Since that first class, Maxine has graduated from the International Sommelier Guild Sommelier Diploma Program, has become a French Wine Scholar through the Wine Scholar Guild, a Spanish Wine Educator through the Wine Academy of Spain, and a Wine Location Specialist with distinction from the Center for Wine Origins.
She is a co-founder of Taste and Compare Academy of Wine, Spirits and Food; retired as a Lead Chef Instructor at the Oregon Culinary Institute, and is looking forward to her next adventure: living and exploring wine in Portugal.