For those of you not in the wine world, workwiths are essentially forced day-long blind dates where you are expected to take a supplier representative from a winery or producer around with you to all your best accounts so they can present their wines and hopefully (fingers crossed) make some sales so they can go home happy.

Here’s how to handle the trials and tribulations of wine sales rep-dom (aka how not to cry in your car during your first weeks on the job). Step 1: Suck it up, buttercup.

Screw caps are great for so many reasons and these days are definitely not an indicator of bad or even cheap wine. Don’t be surprised next time you’re in a wine shop and you see a 30-plus dollar bottle of wine with a screw cap on the shelf!