Natasha Swords

About the Author Natasha Swords

Natasha Swords is an accomplished editor and writer with 20+ years of creative composition, reporting and management. She hails from Dublin Ireland where she held the position of Editor at Jemma Publications. Natasha honed her editorial skills by delivering engaging content on a wide range of topics, before finally focusing on the alcohol beverage and cannabis industries. She is Editor-in-Chief at Bonfort’s Wine and Spirits Journal as well as Drink me Magazine, where she leads all editorial content from story-idea generation to commissioning freelance writers and photographers. She also heads up CannEpoch, a lifestyle publication for the newly cannabis curious.

In 2018, Natasha launched Bonfort’s Wine and Spirits Journal from inception, as well as the Bonfort’s Lifetime Achievement Award, a top-tier industry event connecting leading brands with key buyers.

Steeped in the alcohol industry media, she was previously editor of Off-License Magazine, California Beverage News and Patterson’s California Beverage Journal (now Tasting Panel Magazine), and ran corporate communications for a number of alcohol supplier companies including TGIC (now Guarachi Wine Partners) and distributor, TITAN Wine and Spirits.


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5 Wine Pairing Strategies for Thanksgiving 

Perhaps you work hard all week to prepare an informal, perfect feast, or you tackle hellish traffic to get to someone else’s house on-time for Thanksgiving dinner. Should we even dare to think about those who brave overcrowded airports, packed with weary, shuffling throngs channeling old images of the Irish famine exodus?  On the upside, there’s wine. And, as you know, not only do we like to explore the positive but we like to …

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15 Most Refreshing Cocktails To Remind You Of Summer Days

The first day of autumn has arrived but, depending on where you live, summer can, effectively, drag on until Halloween. This is not good news for those of us who grow weary of the insistent humidity and unrelenting temperatures. However, there is an upside, and we found it: Drink Me asked 15 mixologists to come up with their most refreshing cocktails ever, to help get our readers through …

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