Mary Ewing-Mulligan

Mary Ewing-Mulligan is an American author, wine educator and Master of Wine, the first American woman to achieve this accreditation. 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 for various publications, and the co-author of several wine books in the For Dummies series.

Career 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. 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.

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. French Wine For Dummies, Italian Wine For Dummies and California Wine For Dummies.