Mary Ewing-Mulligan is an American author, wine educator and Master of Wine,[1] the first American woman to achieve this accreditation.[2][3][4][5][6] She has been the Director of the International Wine Center in Manhattan, New York since 1984, and was responsible for the development of Wine & Spirit Education Trust programs in the United States until 2018. She is also a freelance journalist of wine articles to various publications, and the co-author of several wine books in the For Dummies series.
Ewing-Mulligan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 with an English major, followed by various positions with the Italian Trade Commission in Philadelphia and later in Manhattan.[3] In 1984 she joined the International Wine Center, a school founded by Albert L. Hotchkin Jr. in 1982.[7] In 1988, Ewing-Mulligan began the preparatory Master of Wine program. She passed the theoretical exam in 1990 on the second attempt, and the blind-tasting exam on the fifth attempt in 1993.[3][5] In 1997, Ewing-Mulligan bought Hotchkin's shares in the International Wine Center.[7] The IWC is esteemed among the U.S. leading wine schools.[8]
Ewing-Mulligan is a columnist for Wine Review Online and has previously served as wine columnist for The New York Daily News and wine correspondent on the radio program The Splendid Table.[2] She has also contributed articles to publications such as Los Angeles Times, Food & Wine, The New York Times, Gourmet, Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast Magazine and Wine & Spirit.
Her books, co-authored with her husband Ed McCarthy, include Wine Style: Using Your Senses to Explore and Enjoy Wine and several publications in the For Dummies series, including Wine For Dummies,[3][4] Red Wine For Dummies, White Wine For Dummies,[9] French Wine For Dummies, Italian Wine For Dummies and California Wine For Dummies.[10]
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