Christian grew up on a vineyard in western New York and has been enamored with the wine industry ever since. He graduated from Cornell University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and a minor in Enology. He then moved to California where he spent the next eight years working for E&J Gallo Winery; the first four as a research enologist and the next four as a production microbiologist. Christian joined the BevZero team in late 2023 as the Product Development Manager.