Discover Wine Trends & Secrets of Wine and Food pairing from international wine and hospitality expert Marisa D'Vari, DWI, CSW

       Imagine yourself hosting a dinner at a restaurant for clients or special friends. The sommelier hands you a wine list and panic sets in. What to order? Will your choice go well with the cuisine? What if your guests don't notice the expensive choice you made, or worse, think you are cheap?  
       Enter Marisa D'Vari, a respected wine writer and educator, who has interviewed many chefs and winemakers such as the late Robert Mondavi and Julia Child, Daniel Boulud, Adam Tihany, Charlie Palmer, Todd English, and dozens of others on her weekly television show.
     D'Vari travels constantly, usually dragging along an enormous wine atlas (Jancis Robinson, anyone?). In a recent six week period she sipped the finest Burgundy wine at
Grands Jours de Bourgogne, freaked when an ancient ghost vaporized her Blackberry at Lake Como's five-star Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, strolled the Big Easy's famed Bourbon Street,
lunched with several Bordeaux wine-making families, and scampered sea-sprayed streets of Cinque Terre in Italy.
     A So Cal gal (and UCLA grad) D'Vari was awarded the coveted Diploma from the Wine & Spirits Educational Trust out of England, the respected and highly prized title of "Certified Sommelier" by the internationally respected Court of Master Sommeliers andi intends to go forward to
her Master of Wine.
     Now Wine & Spirits Editor for Taste Magazine Cincinnati and wine reviewer for Smart Wine Plus (formerly Wine Investor's Buyer's Guide), D'Vari contributes to hundreds
of publications including London's Financial Times, Robb Report, Quarterly Review of Wine, Sante, San Francisco Chronicle, and many more.
     D'Vari is Vice-Chair, Programming, for Manhattan's prestigious Wine Media Guild, syndicates her 600 word A Wine Storywine review column to various publications, including
the Harvard Business Review, Massachusetts Newspaper Syndicate, Michigan Newspaper Syndicate, Pennsylannia News Syndicate, and others.
     She has also reviewed restaurants for the New York Press, Quarterly Review of Wines, and Beacon Hill Paper (Boston). Earlier, her lifestyle column, A Taste of Luxury, was syndicated internationally to many newspapers and web sites by the Paradigm Syndication Group. 
     Before developing an interest in wine and food, D'Vari had been an executive at TriStar Films and MGM, working with screenwriters to develop stories. "People love stories,"
D'Vari says. "As a wine educator, I use very entertaining and dramatic stories about wine to help them learn." Her two books on storytelling (listed below) are published and available
at bookstores and Amazon.
     In Boston, D'Vari taught a diploma level course at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, served on the board of the Roger Saunders School of Hotel Management,
and taught diploma level 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.

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