Karen MacNeil (born 1954) is an American author, journalist, wine educator and consultant.
[5][6] As of 2023, The Wine Bible had sold close to one million copies worldwide.
Her second book was Wine, Food & Friends (2006),[1][2] and she was the host of a 13-episode PBS series titled Wine, Food and Friends with Karen MacNeil (in tandem with the book), for which she won an Emmy.
[citation needed] MacNeil was the creator of and is now Chairman Emerita of the Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in St. Helena, California.
[10] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she began a series of virtual wine tastings via Zoom sessions[6] for her clients.