Lauren Mowery is a journalist, award-winning photographer, and second stage Masters of Wine candidate. She contributes wine and travel content to Decanter magazine, spent almost five years as Contributing Travel Editor at Wine Enthusiast, and regularly writes about wine, food, and travel for Forbes, Plate, U.S. News & World Report, Hemispheres, and USA Today. She also spent four years writing wine and coffee columns for New York City paper The Village Voice. A former Manhattan litigator, she converted to the startup wine industry though Gilt Taste, before launching a career as a freelancer. She has peregrinated across two dozen countries in the last few years, many of which are featured in articles published in Saveur, Wine & Spirits, SCUBA Diving Magazine, Dine, Carpe Travel, TimeOut, Tasting Panel, Somm Journal, Voyeur (Virgin Australia’s inflight), Punch, Alquimie, Lonely Planet, Incisal Edge, Fodor’s.com, Men’s Journal, Palate Press, and The Wine Merchant. Her personal wine and travel blog, Chasing the Vine, has earned a host of nominations and awards. Following completion of the W.S.E.T. Diploma with honors, she worked the 2015 vintage at Paul Cluver Winery in Elgin, South Africa.