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Karen MacNeil (born 1954) is an American author, journalist, wine educator and consultant.


Career

After moving to New York City at the age of 19 to become a writer, MacNeil published her first article, on the subject of the best artisanal butter on offer in New York, in ''
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.'' She transitioned to writing about wine as well as food in the mid-1970s, when she was commissioned by ''
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'' magazine to write a wine article. She became the first wine and food editor of ''
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'' in the early 1980s. In 1991, Peter Workman of
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read a food article she had published in ''
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'' Magazine section and commissioned her to write a book for the publishing house. That book, which took 8 years to write, was ''The Wine Bible'', which was released in 2001. The second edition of ''The Wine Bible'' came out in 2015 and the third edition in 2022. As of 2023, ''The Wine Bible'' had sold close to one million copies worldwide. ''
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'', and ''The New York Times'' have all praised ''The Wine Bible'' as one of the best wine books. Her second book was ''Wine, Food & Friends'' (2006), and she was the host of a 13-episode
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series titled ''Wine, Food and Friends with Karen MacNeil'' (in tandem with the book), for which she won an Emmy. MacNeil was the creator of and is now Chairman Emerita of the Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies at
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in St. Helena, California.Heimoff, Steve, 'Q & A with Karen MacNeil'. ''Wine Enthusiast'' (July 18, 2007)''Wine Business'' (March 29, 2010)
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/ref> MacNeil also produces an online wine newsletter called ''WineSpeed''. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she began a series of virtual wine tastings via Zoom sessions for her clients. In November 2022, MacNeil was featured in the acclaimed podcast Read Between the Wines for episode 45 where she discussed with host Pierre Ferland her latest edition of The Wine Bible. MacNeil is based in
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. MacNeil was married to Dennis Fife (1945-2016), the past proprietor of Fife Vineyards.


See also

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Jancis Robinson Jancis Mary Robinson OBE, ComMA, MW (born 22 April 1950) is a British wine critic, journalist and wine writer. She currently writes a weekly column for the ''Financial Times'', and writes for her website JancisRobinson.com, updated daily. She ...


References


External links


Official website of Karen MacNeil
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