Awarded the title of "Certified Sommelier" by the Court of Master Sommeliers and recipient of the "passed with distinction" honor (tasting) by the Wine & Spirits Educational Trust (WSET) for her efforts attaining the Advanced Level diploma, D'Vari is in the process of completing the WSET 2-year Diploma program for her DWS credential with intentions of going forward to the Master of Wine and Master Sommelier credential.

     D'Vari also has certification from the prestigious Sommeliers Society of America, the nation's oldest sommelier certificate course and U.C. Davis (Winemaking class via Distance Learning). She has diplomas from the French Culinary Institute in food/wine pairing under Master Sommelier Andrea Immer and food journalism under Alan Rich.

     Now Contributing Wine & Spirits Editor for Taste Cincinnati Magazine and "Tastes Editor" for Blogcritics.org, D'Vari is also a journalist writing articles for London's FT, Robb Report, Quarterly Review of Wines, Sante, Ritz-Carlton and scores of other glossy magazines and international newspapers. She is the author of 5 books translated into four languages (scroll below). She served as editor for Professional Speaker magazine.
      
         Vice-Chair, programming, of Manhattan's prestigious Wine Media Guild, D'Vari has written about celebrity chefs, wine, and luxury travel after leaving the Hollywood Entertainment Industry for Boston's burgeoning restaurant scene. Earlier in Boston, she produced and hosted the weekly television program titled A Taste of Luxury featuring luminaries such as the late Julia Child, Robert Mondavi, Todd English, Daniel Boulud, Charlie Palmer, Adam Tihany, and others too numerous to mention.

     During the same period, she was the restaurant reviewer for the Beacon Hill Paper. Her column, A Taste of Luxury, was internationally syndicated to many newspapers and web sites by the Paradigm Syndication Group.

     Active in Share our Strength and program director of Boston's AIWF (American Institute of Wine & Food) when Julia Child and her assistant Stephanie Hersh were at the helm, D'Vari came to know and befriend many of Boston's most dynamic chefs. Currently, she is active in the New York chapter on the publicity committee.

     D'Vari taught a diploma course at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, served on the board of the Roger Saunders School of Hotel Management, and also taught classes at Harvard and Emerson College.

     She is a member of the Society of Wine Educators, International Association of Culinary Professionals, American Sommelier Association, a Fellow at the James Beard organization, a long standing member of the American Society for Journalists & Authors, National Speakers Association, and Member of the Magazine Publishers of America.

Below are books authored by Marisa D'Vari

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