Zita Keeley

Zita Keeley, CSW is a professional wine educator, and wine events organizer. She has her own wine organazation "All I Do is Wine" and wine blog entitled "The Wining Woman". She writes a newsletter that she publishes every month based on her wine experiences and events. In June 2007, Zita was honored with winning the Women For Winesense "Rising Star" award. This award goes to the most dedicated and the best new wine educator. Zita received the prestigous award from Margrit Mondavi and Ambassador Kathryn Hall. Zita started "Zita Keeley's Wine School" in September 2007 and now offers an online course as well.

Zita Keeley, born in New York City, NY now resides in both the USA and Europe. Her extensive background in media planning and events management along with her passion for wine, food and travel have naturally, brought her to the wine profession.

After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from State University of New York at Stonybrook, Zita worked in the television/film arena where within a few years she became a Vice President of the company. She soon was offered an opportunity to lead exclusive tours for families and organizations in the US and abroad and enjoyed that until moving to Europe. While Zita lived in England for 6 years exclusively she was able to travel to over 20 countries sampling amazing food and wines. She was inspired to learn more about wine and did so at the distinguished Le Cordon Bleu school in London. After moving back to the USA, she continued her wine studies with notable wine educators such as; Michael Green of Gourmet Magazine, Harriett Lembeck, Wine & Spirits Educator and Master Sommelier Richard Dean to name a few, and started her own freelance wine consulting company, All I Do is Wine. She works with major wine retailers and importers including Wines from Spain, Wines of Argentina, PJ Wine and Pasternak Wines as well as appearing at conferences, trade tastings and charity functions. She is a partner of French Wine Tours specializing in a series of wine education tours throughout France.

Zita is the founding President of the New Jersey Chapter of Women for Winesense, a national non-profit wine education organization and member of the American Wine Society and Certified Wine Specialist and member of the Society of Wine Educators. She has been interviewed and quoted by several publications here and in the UK. In addition to leading seminars and tastings, she writes the popular “Wining Woman” blog and monthly e-newsletter. Her latest venture is Zita Keeley’s Wine School.

Zita will be providing the wine pairings for award winning French/Southern Chef Jesse Jones’s (www.heartandsoulcatering.com) latest book, Southern My Way.