Growing up listening to her parents' travel stories, EIT student Alex Peter was keen to head off overseas as soon as she left Marlborough Girls' College.
Although the 27-year-old is now pretty well-travelled, the Bachelor of Viticulture and Bachelor of Wine Science concurrent degree student was thrilled last year to be awarded EIT's Bragato exchange scholarship, giving her a month to explore Italian wine regions.
She had visited Rome and spent seven months in Sardinia but said "Italy was unfinished business".
Peter is the 14th EIT student to benefit from the Bragato exchange programme.
The scheme's founder, Kevyn Moore, a former president of the New Zealand Grape Growers Association, said she made a very favourable impression in Italy, where she visited wineries, vineyards and the School of Viticulture and Oenology in Conegliano.