in linguistics and the Bachelor of Agriculture and Technology is a science course I was very worried… there is a lot of chemistry and mathematics involved in the course and it was more than 25 years since I had done that at school! It was almost like solving a complex jigsaw puzzle and it was fun. Rika’s deliberate decision to undertake the course saw her conquer fears, too – ‘I have a Ph.D. It’s important to have a balance of knowledge between what you learn on the job through experience and the theoretical knowledge to back it up. While I did learn about viticulture and winemaking through Phillip at his Curly Flat Winery and also through my own research, I strongly felt I had to do the course properly. ‘I love doing things formally and getting certificates. So why would Rika go back to undertake another degree? Her career started with technical writing at Sony and then she moved onto teaching Japanese at Australian universities. Rika was a lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Monash University and also a NAATI accredited translator and interpreter. He advised her ‘to go into a production course rather than further WSET… so I looked around and Melbourne Polytechnic seemed distance education friendly, so I enrolled.’ The next step would have been to do the WSET Diploma.’ Around this decision-making period, Rika and her husband, Phillip Moraghan, visited Japan where she was introduced to a friend undertaking a Master of Wine. Later on, when I migrated to Australia, I had some Japanese friends who were very serious about wines, I did the WSET (Wine and Spirit Education Trust) 2 and the WSET 3. My mother loved her wines and got me into ‘tasting wines’ from an early age. ‘I had always been interested in wine and wine appreciation. Back in 2012, Rika Shimo found herself enrolling into Melbourne Polytechnic’s Bachelor of Viticulture and Winemaking to ’fill the gaps’ in her land and winemaking knowledge.Īlong the way, the degree morphed into the Bachelor of Agriculture and Technology (Viticulture and Winemaking) offered in partnership with La Trobe University.
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