# Karen Macneil
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karen macneil is an American author, journalist, wine educator and consultant based in Napa Valley. MacNeil is also the creator and chairman of the Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in St. Helena, California.MacNeil wrote The Wine Bible and was the host of a 13-episode PBS series titled Wine, Food and Friends with karen macneil, for which she won an Emmy.
A discourse in the communications of wine w/ Karen MacNeil, The Wine Bible & Come Over October
As the wine world stumbles through difficult times (in early 2026), Karen MacNeil, author of The Wine Bible and co-founder of Come Over October, believes part of the disconnect stems from time. The fastness of the modern, social media fueled world and the slowness of wine. Her solution is to focu…
Share & Pair Sundays: Karen MacNeil on Wine, Food & Connection
In this episode, Laurie Forster and Karen MacNeil discuss the importance of wine and food in fostering connections among people. They introduce the Share and Pair Sundays campaign, emphasizing the joy of sharing simple meals and wines with friends and family. The discussion highlights how wine serv…
Share & Pair Sundays: Karen MacNeil on Wine, Food & Connection
In this episode, Laurie Forster and Karen MacNeil discuss the importance of wine and food in fostering connections among people. They introduce the Share and Pair Sundays campaign, emphasizing the joy of sharing simple meals and wines with friends and family. The discussion highlights how wine serv…
Ep. 294: Mapping the World of Wine with Karen MacNeil
Karen MacNeil, author of "The Wine Bible", peels back the layers of her journey, revealing the dedication and sensory depth required to create the definitive guide to global viniculture. She steps away from technicalities of the cellar to explore her personal philosophy on how wine shapes history,…
She Studies the World Through a Glass: A Conversation with Kimberly Noelle Charles
Some conversations make you want to pour a glass and never stop listening. This is one of them.
Kimberly Noelle Charles is the founder of Charles Communications Associates, one of the most respected wine marketing communications firms in the country — and one of the most passionate storytellers I'v…
#115 - Inside California Wine: with Christopher Beros, Asia Director of the California Wine Institute
Forget everything you think you know about California wine. Pour yourself a glass, settle in, and let Christopher Beros, Asia Director of the California Wine Institute, take you from the fog-cooled vineyards of Napa and Sonoma all the way to the booming wine bars of Southeast Asia. Recorded live at…
324 - Let Freedom Clink: A Patriotic Pour for America’s 250th!
In today's episode, we kick off the weekend celebration honoring our nation's 250th birthday with our red, white and blue episode! We talk about Shelley's planner (link below), our Wine Bell and Patriotic Pour shirts through Philsosophy AND unveil a new patriotic song at the end of the episode! #Ha…
A Call for a Global Boycott on Wine Grown with Herbicides
On July 22, 2026, Adam L. Huss of the Beyond Organic Wine podcast and Substack, with the support and cooperation of dozens of other wineries, wine sales professionals, and wine educators around the world, has announced a global boycott of all wines produced from vineyards that use herbicides, inclu…
Karen MacNeil, The Wine Bible
This week: Karen MacNeil —author of The Wine Bible, creator of WineSpeed, and founder of Come Over October — on the improbable road from a runaway teenager drinking 89-cent Bulgarian reds to the most decorated wine writer in America.
Karen grew up poor in the Nevada desert, ran away at fourteen, an…
Episode 31: Come Over October with Karen MacNeil & Glass with a Grower: Jan Krupp
October is here, and this month on Grown in Napa Valley, host Caleb Mosley welcomes Karen MacNeil, author of The Wine Bible and co-founder of Come Over October. The campaign is built on one simple invitation: open a bottle and invite someone over. Karen shares how the idea came to her on an early-m…
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