Brenda Audino, DipWSET, CWE, SGD

Brenda is a wine industry veteran with over 20 years experience as a wine buyer, wine broker and certified wine and spirit instructor.  

• One of only 9,000 Wine & Spirit Education Trust Diploma holders in the world

• WSET Certified Educator

• Certified Wine Educator from the Society of Wine Educators

• Over ten years’ experience as a wine buyer for a large retail chain

• Managed distribution channels for small boutique wineries

Brenda, the owner and operator of Capri Cellars as well as Spirited Grape. is passionate about wine and shares this passion by educating, writing and consulting for the wine industry.  She holds the Diploma in Wine and Spirits (DWS), the highest certification from the London based Wine & Spirit Education Trust, is a Certified Wine Educator (CWE) from the Society of Wine Educators and holds the Sommelier Diploma (SGD) from the International Sommelier Guild.

Brenda enjoys traveling and has been to the wine regions of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Australia as well as most of the major wine producing areas in the United States.  She shares these travel journeys through pictures and stories in her classes.