Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Born and raised in rural Maine, 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 began working for Robert M. Parker, Jr. at The Wine Advocate as a reviewer for Australian and New Zealand wines. In 2013, she became Editor in Chief for Robert Parker Wine Advocate and RobertParker.com, as well 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 become co-founder of The Wine Independent, a fresh, new take on wine criticism websites, focusing on storytelling and emotive professional photography as much as expert wine reviews.