Liza Zimmerman

About the Author Liza Zimmerman

Liza Zimmerman has been writing, educating and consulting about wine,
drinks and food for two decades. She is the principal of the San
Francisco-based Liza the Wine Chick consulting firm and regularly
contributes to publications such as Cheers Magazine, DrinkUpNY and the
SOMM Journal.

She has also worked almost every angle of the wine and food business:
from server and consultant to positions in distribution, education,
event planning and sales. She has visited all the world’s major
wine-growing regions and holds the Diploma of Wine & Spirits (D.W.S.),
the three-year program that is the precursor to the Master of Wine.
She has also passed the one-day Beverage Alcohol Resource (BAR)
program and audited the week-long program in New York.