Fine Wine Writer Marisa D’Vari, AIWS, CSW is publisher of the online magazine AWineStory.com, Wine & Spirits Editor for Taste Magazine Cincinnati, NY Wine Pairing Examiner for the national online newspaper NY Examiner for Smart Wine Plus (formerly Wine Investor's Buyer's Guide) in addition to syndicating her weekly column to a variety of newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and blogs. She has written for prestigious publications such as London’s Financial Times, Robb Report, Quarterly Review of Wine, the San Francisco Chronicle, South China Morning Post, Sante, and many more.
Previously, she had produced and hosted the television show A Taste of Luxury (1995 – 2003) in which she interviewed the late Robert Mondavi and Julia Child, Daniel Boulud, Adam Tihany, Charlie Palmer, Todd English, and similar guests from 1995 to the present.
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 LakeComo'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 has been awarded the Diploma from the Wine & Spirits Educational Trust (a two year program based in the UK), the title of "Certified Sommelier" by the internationally respected Court of Master Sommeliers and intends to go for the highest honor, the Masters of Wine. Other wine-related diplomas include the Society of Wine Educators, the Sommelier Society of America, and the American Sommelier Society. Recently D’Vari was awarded a fellowship from Far Niente winery in conjunction with the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers that takes place at the Meadowood resort in the Napa Valley each year, and is in part sponsored by the Napa Valley Vintners Association.
Before developing an interest in wine and food, she had been an executive at many Hollywood studios, 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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