Elodie Boucher has always had an interest in the wine industry.
The 22-year-old French native remembers attending big family gatherings as a child with a bottle of wine in the middle of the table.
“Everyone would try the wine; it’s just so much a part of our culture,” Ms Boucher said.
“People don’t drink to get drunk; they drink to enjoy the taste.”
After studying wine marketing at university, specifically focusing on the beautiful Champagne region, she felt like a change of scenery and booked a flight to Australia in September last year, hoping to improve her English.
“I wanted have a change in my life. I was bored of my life back home,” she said.
“I wanted to meet new people and try something different.”
In Melbourne, she worked for four months at a company that imported champagne.
“It was such a great experience and I learned a lot in a short amount of time,” she said.
Ms Boucher travelled to regional Victoria to do the “Farm Work” section of her university course and to gain more hands-on experience working in the wine industry.
She is living in Lake Boga and working at the Free family farm with Nathan and dad Kelvin.
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