Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Lisa Perrotti-Brown has spent over 25 years in the wine industry, living and working in London, Tokyo, Singapore, and now Napa, California. In 2008, she became a Master of Wine and received the Madame Bollinger Medal for excellence in wine tasting. That same year, she started working for Robert M. Parker, Jr. at The Wine Advocate. In 2013, she was named editor-in-chief of Robert Parker Wine Advocate and RobertParker.com, serving as the publication’s critic for Bordeaux, Napa Valley, and Sonoma County wines. Lisa’s first book, Taste Like a Wine Critic: A Guide to Understanding Wine Quality, was published in 2015. In 2021, she left Robert Parker Wine Advocate to co-found The Wine Independent, where she remained for three years, covering the wines of Bordeaux and California. In 2025, she founded The Wine Palate, a new kind of wine publication that offers unbiased, expertly judged wine reviews and a proprietary Palate Matcher, enabling users to find wines that accurately match their palate preferences.