About us

April Fain, WSET Qualified A wine missionary and Managing Director of The Wine Ministry in Zürich, April’s passion is to show the world the pleasure that wine holds as a sensory experience. In addition, she believes that combining mindfulness and wine appreciation serve as means to rewire neuropathways in the brain by revisiting often neglected senses of smell and taste to alleviate stress. She is owner of www.winefulness.ch which is targeted to launched in 2020. Her wine profile is full-bodied reds with vegetal, forest floor aromas (grenache, monastrell, right bank merlot). April has worked in several countries and 17 years in Switzerland. She is intrigued by wine-making and neuroenology (the study of how our brain perceives taste, aroma and their harmony. (Languages: English, German, Spanish) Ilaria Cova, WSET Qualified An Italian native, Ilaria has wine in her blood. She first became interested in wine as a teenager. She is talented at pairing Italian wines with its food and travels frequently to wine-producing nations as a flight attendant. She loves to share her wine research trips to places like Chile and California and how talk about how those wines compare with Italy. Her wine profile is full-bodied reds and loves to experience how the same grape differs by region or wine-making technique. (Languages: Italian, English, German, Spanish)