Sommelier, wine writer and international wine judge, Roxanne Langer has tipped her glass around the world looking for the best wines, Champagnes, Cognacs, and Whiskeys. She has held executive management positions for Napa Valley wineries, international winery associations and even a cult winery located in the tawny hills of Bel Air, Los Angeles. Frequently a guest wine speaker for wine festivals (including EPCOT’s International Food & Wine Festival) to cruise ships, Langer has coauthored, “Churchill, A Drinking Life: Champagne, Cognac and Cocktails” (Skyhorse Publishing NYC, Aug 2022). Langer has also penned a myriad of articles for the Somm Journal, The Tasting Panel, and numerous newspapers and wine blogs and was most recently a writer for the Carmel Pine Cone, Carmel by the Sea, CA. As the co-founder of LadySomm, a wine edutainment and experience company, wine school, tasting salon and wine store, located in Carmel, CA, Langer provides wine programs to corporations, associations, universities and C-suite executives in the US and Europe. A two-time graduate of the University of the Pacific (B.A & M.A.) Langer wrote her master’s thesis on wine. She attended the University of California at Davis Community Education Program in Viticulture and Enology and has studied under WSET in the UK, US Somm and is a somm-certification adjunct professor. Langer has traveled extensively through 40 countries focusing mainly on wine regions. In addition, Langer serves as Vice Enchansson for the Los Angeles Chapter of Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, is a member of Women of the Vine & Spirits, Women for WineSense (past Sacramento president), CMO Club (Chief Marketing Officers), Board of Director for Les Dames d'Escoffier International Monterey Chapter, American Institute of Food and Wine, Knights of the Vine, and Women in Wine, Monterey, CA.