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Catherine Fallis

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Catherine Fallis is the fifth woman in the world to have earned the title of Master Sommelier, and the first person in the world to have also earned the Advanced Certified Wine Professional title from the Culinary Institute of America. She is Founder and President of planet grape® LLC, a wine consulting firm providing education, content, sommelier services, and innovative custom cellar systems from Revel Cellars for restaurants, wine bars, retail locations and personal collections.

Fallis is Contributing Editor for Sommelier Journal, a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, and numerous others, and co-author most recently of Great Boutique Wines You Can Buy Online (Silverback Books). She is an adjunct instructor at the Culinary Institute of America and the Professional Culinary Institute, a frequent speaker, event host, and educator for corporations, consumers, and the trade, and is one of a handful of female professional sabreurs in the world. She opens Champagne with a sword in a dazzling 3-minute theatrical performance.

Introduced to wine while backpacking around Europe in college days, she honed her skills later when she returned to live in Florence and Paris. Upon her return to New York she worked with Chef Alain Sailhac at Le Cirque, Leona Helmsley at the Helmsley Palace Hotel, and Kevin Zraly at Windows on the World. Her last full-time sommelier position was as Michael Mina’s wine director at Aqua in San Francisco.

From Manhattan to Honolulu, Hollywood, Aspen, Monaco, and Cannes, Catherine has shared her wine expertise with hundreds of novices and collectors including Heather Locklear, Vanna White, Ivana and Ivanka Trump, Nicolas Cage, Brad Pitt, Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, Antonio Sabato Jr., Richie Sambora, Chris Botti, and Diana Krall.

Find Catherine Fallis at www.planetgrape.com, email at grapegoddess@planetgrape.com
or call 415 425 5828.