Chip Cassidy told stories — about wine, which was his passion; about war, which was his duty; about his students, who are his legacy.
Cassidy, South Florida’s foremost wine expert and scholar, who started the wine education program at Florida International University’s Chaplin School of Hospitality, died Monday in home hospice care after a brief battle with esophageal cancer. He was 72.
“He was a wine expert but he was so much more than that,” his son, Patrick Cassidy, said.
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