Hong Kong’s Debra Meiburg set up a wine events and communications business but auction houses such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s, supermarkets and classic wine merchants also can offer jobs The path for a newly qualified master of wine is not obvious but a look at those who have gone before can be instructive. The Institute of Masters of Wine was initially developed to certify members of the wine trade, ie people whose primary business is selling wine, not making it, writing or educating people about it.