Tim McNally, host of the weekly two-hour The Wine Show on WIST 690 AM in New Orleans, is a past 8-term Board member and 2-term president of The New Orleans Wine and Food Experience, which attracts more than 14,000 lovers of food and wine to the Crescent City every May.

He is a Founder and Board Member of the Crescent City Restaurant Rebirth Project, a foundation working to assist area restaurants get back to business after Hurricane Katrina, and currently serves on the Board of the New Orleans chapter, Chaine des Rotisseurs.

Tim is a contributing editor for two websites about wine and food, including the highest trafficked website in the area, neworleans.com, where he is also moderator for the wine forum area. Tim writes monthly columns about wine and spirits for New Orleans CityBusiness and New Orleans Magazine. And he annually serves as a judge for wine competitions along the Gulf Coast, in the South, and California.

Tim’s wife, Brenda Maitland, is a wine and food writer for six local and regional publications. They both continue to serve as Founding Board Members of the Museum of the American Cocktail, a four-year old project, which is now in the process of establishing a permanent home in New Orleans, birthplace of the Cocktail.

He is president of IDEAS of New Orleans, Inc., a marketing services and consulting company, which he founded in 1986.