Sharon Wild is a wine communicator and all-round wine lover with three decades of local and international wine industry experience. Through her business Wild About Wine She has engaged in a vast array of writing, educating & speaking engagements since 1996. She has pursued freelance wine writing projects such as contributing feature articles to wine magazines and copywriting for a host of wine entities. She has hosted wine tastings (such as wine options games and masterclasses) and has spoken about wine at corporate conferences and events. And she has taught a range of wine courses; from basic wine appreciation classes to the internationally-certified WSET’s (which she re-introduced to Sydney in 2001).Other wine industry roles have included; Asia Pacific Brand Manager with a portfolio of Italian Wines, Fine Wine Consultant with a French Riviera based Super yacht provisioning company and Brand Manager (NSW, ACT & QLD) for a leading Margaret River winery as well as stints in wine retail.Sharon was a Len Evans Tutorial Scholar in 2006. She has also judged on the official Australian wine show circuit, on magazine and other industry panels and she has engaged in Master of Wine (MW) studies. She was the first Australian Woman to pass the Tasting part of the MW exam in 2000 and attaining the qualification remains on her bucket-list. She holds a Master of Commerce in Accounting from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts in Design in Advertising from Curtin University in Perth. She worked in Audit & Business Growth services with a Big 4 Chartered Accounting Firm from 2005 to 2008 (specialising in the wine industry sector) and she currently provides Xero bookkeeping & BAS Agent services to small businesses on a part-time basis.