Columnist, WineReviewOnLine.com

Michael Apstein is a columnist and wine reviewer for WineReviewOnLine.com and contributes to the wine section of the San Francisco Chronicle. As a free-lance writer, he wrote over 300 wine columns for The Boston Globe newspaper.

He received a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award in 2000 and was nominated again in 2004 and 2006. In 2008, he won the Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne Press Trophy for an article about Pouilly-Fuissé.

He has been a regular guest commentator on Whitley on Wine, a radio show based in San Diego and broadcast nationally.

He is a well-respected wine educator who taught at the Boston Center for Adult Education for 20 years. Bon Appetit magazine chose him as one of five instructors nationwide whose “focused classes closely examine a specific wine producing region or wine style.” He has conducted numerous tastings and seminars for organizations, including the Radisson Cruise Line, the Boston Wine Festival, the Nantucket Wine Festival, The Boston Wine Expo, The Elizabeth Bishop Wine Resource Center at Boston University, The Providence Wine Festival, and the Society of Wine Educators.

Dr. Apstein judges frequently at national and international wine competitions including the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, the Critics Challenge Wine Competition, the LA County Fair, the Dallas Morning News Wine Competition, The Old Ebbitt Grill International Wine for Oysters competition, and the Concours St. Marc in Chateauneuf du Pape.

Dr. Apstein is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Division of Gastroenterology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He lectures and writes frequently about wine and health.