Master of Wine Peter Marks' Career, About Napa Valley & Constellation Brand Wines, On Travel Radio

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Master of Wine Peter Marks' Career, About Napa Valley & Constellation Brand Wines, On Travel Radio Show: During this segment Peter Marks, Master of Wine, talks about his 35 year career in the wine industry and how he started in the retail section of the business before moving to Napa Valley when he started to work with COPIA, The American Center for Wine, Food and Arts, founded by Julia Child and Robert Mondavi, and had "good run there for 7 years" but it fell on hard times after the 2008 recession and was closed down. Now he is at Constellation Brands, the largest luxury wine company, and his main task is educating the public on wines which he enjoys tremendously. The list of wineries under the Constellation umbrella is certainly impressive and extends beyond California to Canada and Italy. Paul Lasley, a wine journalist for a time, brings a vast knowledge of wine, food and travel is always a great addition to the interviews with wine river cruise hosts for AmaWaterways. Peter Marks is the first Master of Wine he encountered when putting together the AmaWaterways-On Travel Podcast Series and he hopes to interview him again. For more about AmaWaterways go to www.AmaWaterways.com. About Peter Marks, Master of Wine: Peter Marks is one of only 24 Masters of Wine residing in the U.S. In 1995, he passed the rigorous MW exam and became the first American to garner the Madame Bollinger Foundation Award which is bestowed to the MW candidate with the highest tasting score. Peter graduated from UC Davis in 1976 with a BS degree with highest honors in Food Service Management and became interested in wine while attending a number of viticulture and enology classes. Since entering the wine trade in 1981, he has held the positions of Director of Wine at the upscale Draeger’s Supermarkets in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chief Wine Merchant at the on-line wine retailer Wine.com, and Senior Vice President of Wine at COPIA, the American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts. Peter is also a member of the Society of Wine Educators; Education Coordinator for the Institute of Masters of Wine tasting exam in the US; is on the Board of Directors of the Napa Valley Wine Library and judges many international wine competitions.