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Michèle Shah is a marketing consultant, and a wine critic based in Italy for over 30 years, specialized in promoting Italian wines to export markets. Michèle Shah SRL is the originator of the innovative B2B formula registered under Speedtasting®. Since 2002 she has been consulting to the Italian wine trade, organizing tasting events and workshops held at Italian trade events, such as Vinitaly, and Winett Taste & Trade, aimed at presenting Italian wines and their producing regions to international wine importers and buyers. For over ten years Michèle Shah has been organizing on behalf of Italy’s regional consorzio’s, wine tastings, seminars and educationals on Italian wine and its regions of production for international press and international wine buyers. Michèle Shah collaborates with a team of consultants engaged in developing Italy’s wine export programmes and promotional events outside Italy ’Internazionalizzazione’ OCM programmes which focus on opening new export channels for Italian wines. Her principle clients include a number of Italy’s Regional Consortiums, such as Isonzo Friuli, Brunello di Montalcino, Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene, and Sicily’s Regional office – IRVV (Istituto Regionale della Vite e del Vino) in Sicily.

On this website you will find an update of Michèle Shah’s activities, writing, consultancies and working experience:
Her writing experience includes: winespectator.com, decanter.com, wine-business-international.com, sanpellegrino.com and monthly columns for winenews.it as well as feature articles written for specialist papers and magazines, including: Wine Business International, Wine Spectator, Decanter, Corriere Vinicolo, Sommelier India, Wine & Spirit, ONL, Wine International, Harpers, Wine & Spirit International, Vini, San Pellegrino, Slowfood, Bibenda, Wino Magazyn (Poland), Der Feinschmecker – Wein Gourmet , Sommelier India, Le Connoisseur – Fine wine in Porto Rico, Czas Wina and Oberoi Group Magazine-Asia.

Currently Michèle Shah writes as Italy correspondent for:

Meininger’s Wine Business International – trade magazine

Sommelier India -India’s top consumer magazine

Czas Wina – Poland – consumer and trade magazine

Please note that this website is completely independent. Any mention or recommendation is purely through personal choice for reasons of merit and interest. All articles and photographs are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without prior permission. Copyright © 2011 Michèle Shah