Christy Canterbury MW was the 7th woman in the US to earn the Master of Wine title.
Christy currently is designing a 10,000-bottle cellar for a private Manhattan club. She redesigned wine lists for Loch Lomond Golf Club and Gordon Ramsay at The London and was previously the Corporate Beverage Director for Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group and then Culinary Concepts by Jean-Georges Vongerichten. In the retail sphere, she directed purchasing for New York-based Italian Wine Merchants and Zachys and oversaw their Hong Kong operations.
Christy’s corporate client roster includes Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Rackspace, Fitch Ratings and Mitsubishi UFG Financial Group. Her appearances include Wine Masters TV, FOX Business, the Andrea Bocelli Wine Experience and Grace Farms Benefits.
In 2014, the Roederer Awards short-listed Christy for the Online Wine Communicator of the Year. Her work has been published by Decanter, Wine Enthusiast, Huff-Post, Wine-Searcher, SevenFifty Daily, Edible Green Mountains and others. She was the Consulting Editor of the GOURMAND AWARD-winning book, Rock and Vine, and the Italian Wine Editor for Sunday Pasta, Garrubbo Guide: The Importance of Eating Italian and the Professional Wine Reference.