Karen MacNeil

Karen MacNeil is the only American to have won every major wine
award given in the English language. These include the James
Beard award for Wine and Spirits Professional of the Year,
the Louis Roederer award for Best Consumer
Wine Writing, and the International Wine and Spirits award
as the Global Wine Communicator of the Year.  In a
full-page profile on her, TIME Magazine called Karen “America’s
Missionary of the Vine.” In 2018, Karen was named one of the “100
Most Influential People in the Wine.”


But deep global wine knowledge is only part of the story. Karen
is considered America’s foremost wine presenter–a speaker who can
enchant audiences from 5 to 500, and from wine novices to wine
collectors alike. Her customized TED-like talks are accompanied
by extraordinary wines which she personally selects for the
event.


Karen is also the author of the award-winning book, THE WINE
BIBLE, the single best-selling wine book in the United States,
praised as “The most informative and entertaining book I’ve ever
seen on the subject” (Danny Meyer), “Astounding” (Thomas Keller),
and “A masterpiece of wine writing…the single best wine book
written in years…” (Kevin Zraly).


The former wine correspondent for the Today Show, Karen was the
host of the PBS series Wine, Food and Friends with Karen MacNeil,
for which she won an Emmy. Karen is the creator and editor
of WineSpeed, the leading digital “e-letter” in the U.S. for
fast, authoritative information about wine. Her articles on wine
and food have been published in more than 50 newspapers and
magazines including The New York Times, Town & Country, Elle,
and Worth. She was the first Food and Wine Editor of USA Today.
Karen currently hosts #SipWithKaren, the leading Twitter tasting
in the global wine sphere, which each month reaches 20+ million
timelines from Indiana to India.


Karen’s firm, Karen MacNeil & Company, creates customized
corporate events and wine tours around the world for companies
and individual groups. Among Karen’s corporate clients are Lexus,
Merrill Lynch, Disney, General Electric, UBS, and Singapore
Airlines, as well as numerous law and biotech firms.


Karen is the creator and Chairman Emeritus of the Rudd Center for
Professional Wine Studies at the Culinary Institute of America in
the Napa Valley, which has been called “the Harvard of wine
education.”