ShopEatDrink

ShopEatDrink is my blog about all the things I love:  wine, food, fashion and style.  Here I get to combine them all and share with you.

What’s in my wine cellar? My favorite wines are the Rhone varietals, Priorat, Nero d’Avola, rose´and bubbly.

What’s in my closet? Diane von Furstenberg, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Rozae Nichols, Yigal Azrouel, Velvet, Trina Turk, AG, 7′s and JBrand jeans. For shoes, Bettye Muller, Anyi Lu, Christian Louboutin, Chie Mihara, Manolo, Jimmy Choo, Constanca Basto, Tods and Angeleigh Anastasio.  Handbags are also Angeleigh Anastasio, Kooba, Treesje, Tods, Gustto.  I adore jewelry, and my collection includes Robindira Unsworth, Alexis Bittar, Pianegonda and Vaubel.

Favorite restaurants are Manresa, Pizzeria Bianco, Redd, The Girl & the Fig, Mustards and Go Fish, Ad Hoc, Taylor’s (now Gott’s), Blue Hill (both in NY city and at Stone Barns), Union Square Cafe and Cypress.

I am also a beauty product and perfume junkie.  I spent a week in Grasse, France, with Sniffapalooza, on a perfume tour, which was an amazing experience.  There are so many similarities between wine and perfume.  To me it’s a natural pairing.

This year (2010), I completed the WSET intermediate and advanced certificate programs. I’m also planning on doing the first levels of Court of Master Sommelier.  Maybe the WSET diploma program next?  Am I crazy?  We’ll see.

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“Official Bio”

Mary Orlin is the Emmy award-winning Executive Producer of Orlin Media, where she is a wine TV and video producer, telling winery stories behind the label.  Most recently she was Executive Producer of NBC’s In Wine Country, wine country’s premier lifestyle show that airs nationally on the NBC Network.  (Production on the show ceased in October 2009). She launched the show in October 2001, and it aired for nine seasons.  In 2005 she received the James Beard Foundation Award, Emmys in 2007 and 2008, and led her team to a total 12 Emmys over the nine seasons that the show aired.  Mary has garnered numerous other journalism awards for the show, including Best Producer from American Women in Radio & Television.

Mary has also been a wine judge at the Mendocino Crab & Wine Days, the California State Fair, Livermore Valley’s Taste of Terroir and the Santa Cruz Mountains wine competitions.  Prior to working at NBC, Mary Orlin was a producer for CNN Travel Now, CNN’s program on worldwide destinations, trends, wine and cuisines. She also served as an editor for ZagatSurvey, was a regular contributor to Travelocity magazine, and was food and wine editor for the Palo Alto Weekly.