Monday Profile: Melanie Hankins Booth doesn’t drink wine — she experiences it
Starkville native Melanie Hankins Booth teaches classes on the culture and appreciation of wine at area universities, restaurants and civil clubs. Booth, who has traveled the country trying different fine wines, says her favorite thing about her job is meeting people and helping them “experience” wine, rather than just drink it. Courtesy photo
At Melanie Hankins Booth’s wine education and tasting class Thursday night, the attendees all raised their glasses and toasted: “Here’s to being here.”
Booth, a wine educator and Starkville native, encouraged these wine-drinkers not just to drink their glass of wine but to experience it. The “WEEBs” in her class — or wine education and experience buddies — looked meaningfully into each others’ eyes as they sipped their Italian primitivo.