Jaime Pagano has been living and working in the Byron Bay area for the last 9 years. Hailing from Sydney, he arrived in the Byron Bay area for a short-term work opportunity and fell in love with the area.

He has worked at St Elmo Dining Room in Byron Bay, love.fish in Sydney and managed venues and consulted on bar menus thus amassing a wealth of experience and knowledge in the wine and spirit game. He began his own business two years ago - Milk and Honey in Mullumbimby. He, now, lives in Terrigal.

He grew up in an Italian family surrounded by good food and wine with a father owning greengrocers. This began a fascination with the way wine and spirits can taste so different using the same products and techniques, just changing the source location.

He has both wine qualifications and teaching qualifications having graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor in Education and completed Level 1 - 3 WSET courses - with Level 3 in 2016. Jaime now is bringing all his studies together teaching WSET courses to the NSW Northern Rivers area.