We are living in a moment in history which seems particularly poised for taking stock of our industry and our practice of teaching. Fires burn wide swaths of forest each summer, the ice caps are melting, and with them, global diplomacy. It sometimes feels hard to tell if wine really matters in the grand scheme of it all. How we attempt to deal with our place in the world and our sense of mortality, however small, is through teaching and communicating, through making sure we can share with you the things worth saving and teach you how to weed out the things better left behind. As educators and wine professionals, we have all spent more than a third of our adult lives learning…