Packaging components - specifically packaging components for wine, but there’s some general crossover.
Glass bottles - finishes, shapes, sizes, colors, etc.
Cork - The production of natural cork stoppers, grades of cork, synthetics, etc.
Labels - Paper stocks, printing processes, adhesives, etc. Legal requirements of wine (and some knowledge of other alcoholic beverage) labels, and what all the gibberish printed on a label actually means. - Mostly pertaining to US labels, but I’ve got a pretty good working knowledge of the requirements of just about all wine producing countries.
Misc packaging - Capsules, screw caps, bag in the box, tetra pack, corrugated boxes, etc.
Basic laws pertaining to alcohol as governed in the US by TTB and/or individual states.
Thanks to work, I guess I’ve slowly become something of a cork dork or a wine geek. What I absolutely am not is a wine snob.
I understand most of the basic concepts of viticulture and oenology, as well as the evaluation and service of wine, and hope to expand on them with classes over the next few years. Basically a pretty solid knowledge base of wine from grape to glass that I continue to expand and will never, ever learn even half of all there is to know, making it a fun topic to learn. I’ll never get bored. And it tastes good! And it gets me drunk!
Other topics are sailing and cycling, but my knowledge and experience are pretty limited in both.