Special Guest: Laura Donadoni

Laura Donadoni is an Italian wine journalist and influencer, based in San Diego, where she founded 5 years ago "The Italian Wine Girl" blog and La Com Wine Agency, a strategic P.R. and Communications firm focused on the wine industry.

She is a columnist for Edible, SommJournal and Tasting Panel magazine, a Certified Sommelier with merit with the North American Sommelier Association and the World Sommelier Association and holds a WSET Advanced Certification.

Laura is also one of the few Vinitaly International Italian Wine Ambassadors in the world and a Certified Wine Educator.  She is an Italian and Spanish Wine Specialist, an official wine judge for the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition and many others international wine competitions, a member of the International Circle of Wine Writers and of the Los Angeles Wine Writers Association and the Director of the Wine Education Program at the Pacific National Food and Beverage Museum in L.A.

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