Bio

Evan P. Spingarn has worked in wine for 20 years as an educator, consultant, writer, retailer and wholesaler. From 1995 to 1996 he worked for The Beverage Testing Institute in Chicago where he conducted wine, beer and spirits tasting panels and wrote regular tasting notes and articles for Wine Enthusiast magazine. From 1996 to 2004 he served as the manager and buyer for Nancy’s Wines For Food in New York. He is currently the senior salesperson and German brand manager for David Bowler Wine, a fine wine importer and distributor in New York and New Jersey, specializing in small production, artisanal and organic/sustainable wines.

He has also written several New York winelists, most notably for The Tangled Vine Wine Bar & Kitchen, a groundbreaking wine bar on New York’s Upper West Side, which specializes in organic and sustainable wines from Europe. He has been a tasting panelist with Eric Asimov at The New York Times and a frequent guest commentator on wine at Martha Stewart Living Radio. He is a professional member of the Society of Wine Educators and has taught hundreds of classes for corporate and private clients through his company, Evan Spingarn Wine Events.

His book, The Ultimate Wine Lover’s Guide saw two editions, and was the bestselling wine book at Barnes & Noble in 2005. Mr. Spingarn is a sixth generation New Yorker and lives in Brooklyn with his wife Kate, their daughter Nora and an extensive Chinese takeout menu collection.