Clay Stobaugh earned his degree in French at Tulane University, his MBA at Harvard Business School, and his Sommelier Certificate diploma from The Sommelier Society of America. He has served as a Commandeur in The Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, the organization of Burgundy wine connoisseurs based in Burgundy, France, and has chaired the wine committees for over two decades at multiple private dining clubs. Before completing his manuscript, he retired as the Chief Marketing Officer of John Wiley & Sons Publishing
