Karen MacNeil is director of the wine program at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley. She consults countrywide on the subject of wine and has appeared often on television, including the "Today" show. She's written more than 1,000 articles on wine for "The New York Times", "Travel & Leisure", "Bon Appetit", "Fine Cooking", "The Wine Spectator", "Elle", and other major newspapers and magazines, and she currently writes a monthly column for both "Sunset" and "Cooking Light". She lives in Napa Valley with her husband, winemaker Dennis Fife.