Ray Isle is wine editor of Food & Wine magazine, the modern, stylish, trend-spotting, talent-seeking epicurean magazine with an audience of 7.4 million readers. In addition to overseeing the magazine?s wine department, Isle writes the monthly column, Tasting Room, directs the magazine?s spirits coverage, and is the author of foodandwine.com?s wine blog, Tasting Room. He was promoted from deputy wine editor in 2009.
Prior to joining Food & Wine in 2005 as senior wine editor, Isle was managing editor of Wine & Spirits magazine. His articles about wine, food and spirits have appeared in a wide range of publications including Wine & Spirits, The Washington Post, Martha Stewart Living and Gastronomica, and he has been nominated for a James Beard Award. Isle has also worked in sales and marketing for a wine importer and taught fiction writing at Stanford University.
Isle regularly conducts wine tasting seminars at epicurean events and appears as a wine and spirits expert on national television, including NBC?s Today, ABC's The View, ABC's Good Morning America, and CBS?s The Early Show. In addition, he regular reports his wine adventures on twitter.com/islewine.
He has a BA in Literature from Rice University, an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford in Fiction Writing. Isle lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and daughter.
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