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Patricia Guy
Patricia Guy writes widely about wine for magazines around the world. She is also the author of books about wine, including: Wines of Italy and Amarone: Verona’s Great Red Wine. Bacchus at Baker Street and Wine with Asian Food: New Frontiers in Taste was published in September 2007. Ms Guy began her wine career in France as a vendangeuse, and eventually worked as a sommelier, a wine-tasting tutor and a wine buyer. She brokered Bordeaux and fine Italian wine in London for four years, while preparing for professional exams set by the Wine and Spirits Educational Trust. She studied oenology and viticulture, and, for three years, studied blind tasting with Maggie McNie, M.W. She won The International Vintners Scholarship in 1989 and the Wine Spectator Scholarship in 1992. Patricia moved to Verona in 1991, where she teaches tasting to members of the public, wine trade professionals, and oenology students at the University of Verona’s Wine Department. She serves frequently on juries for international wine competitions. She has been honored in Italy as a Castellana di Suavia and as a Cavaliere del Sovrano e Nobilissimo Ordine dell’Antico Recioto. On the eve of her first fateful trip to France she was asked to
join the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes club. Thus, her entry into
the wine trade and her official Sherlockian status are forever intertwined.
She edited Ladies, Ladies: The Women in the Life of Sherlock Holmes
(out in September) and founded a scion society, the Assorted and Stradivarius
of Verona. e-mail: p.guy(at)ifinet.it
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