Erik Wait is a Certified Sommelier (Court of Master Sommeliers), French Wine Scholar (Wine Scholar Guild), Certified Scotch Professional and Certified Whisky Specialist (Council of Whisky Masters) and Whiskey Sommelier (Whiskey Marketing School). He studied enology (wine making) at Las Positas College College. He then became a Certified Whisky Ambassador (BIIAB), studied marketing at the Whisky Marketing School in Austin Texas, earned a Diploma in Single Malt Scotch from the Edinburgh Whisky Academy and graduated from the Springbank Whisky School (July 2023).