Hello, my name is Anthony Giglio.

I’m a journalist who studied to be a sommelier, figuring if I could use those tools to taste, I could write about wine with authority. What I didn’t expect was that those tools would redirect my career toward tasting and writing about practically everything. After getting my diploma with the Sommelier Society of America in 1992 I became a volunteer sommelier at Windows on the World’s Cellar in the Sky at the top of the World Trade Center. During the day I was the youngest managing editor at Wine Enthusiast. I was a restaurant critic for New Jersey Monthly, Robb Report, Worth and The New York Sun. I was a senior editor at the late, great ’90s lad mag’ P.O.V. Magazine. I was the wine critic for Boston Magazine. I was a wine columnist for Details. I ghost wrote legendary bartender Dale DeGroff’s wildly successful “The Craft of the Cocktail” (Proof Publishing Limited, 2003), before writing my own first book, “Cocktails in New York” (Rizzoli, 2004). I followed that up by writing several editions of the “Mr. Boston Official Cocktail Guide,” and then tasted thousands of wines to write three editions of Food & Wine Magazine’s annual “Wine Guide.” For nearly 15 years I was a wine reporter for CBS News Radio.

I’ve appeared as a guest on NBC’s Today Show, Food Network, CNBC, and FOX Business News, and have been invited to speak at food and wine festivals and events around the world, including the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, The Cayman Cookout, The Barbados Food, Wine & Rum Festival, Pebble Beach Food & Wine, and Ojai Food + Wine, to name a few. I’ve written hundreds of articles for publications that include New York Magazine, Esquire, Every Day With Rachael Ray, Travel + Leisure, Marie Claire, Self, Redbook, Reader’s Digest, Parade and more. I’ve also been invited to speak twice at The Moth.

During the Pandemic, I formed a company to host over 500 virtual wine tastings for at least 50,000 very happy, mostly homebound guests in a dozen countries across the globe, sending each household four different 750-ml bottles of wine, sometimes with cheese and charcuterie, sometimes with caviar, and sometimes just a bag of chips—that’s all it takes, sometimes. Somehow—I still can’t believe it—when Covid gave us lemons, I managed to make a lot of lemonade.

Since 2011 I’ve been the Wine Director for the American Express Centurion Global Lounge Collection, as well as a longtime Contributing Editor to Food & Wine Magazine. I host a lot of wine tastings and dinners for groups large and small, most often for C-suite guests of Blue Chip companies like American Express, The American Heart Association, BlackRock, Merrill Lynch, SalesForce, ViacomCBS, K&L Gates and Dotdash Meredith.

When asked how I got from there to here, I like to say that no matter what situation I find myself in, whether I’m teaching students at my local community college or hosting a seminar in front of 300 guests at a festival, I ground myself by remembering my blue collar upbringing in Jersey City, New Jersey, and from there I reassure guests that each of us is the expert of our own palates, and that there are no wrong answers to any of my questions… except White Zinfandel.