Gillian Sciaretta

Coming Up

The work starts with Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration, where Gillian Sciaretta built the formal base that still reads in her approach to wine: disciplined, hospitality-minded, and tuned to service. From there, the focus narrowed to evaluation itself. As a Tasting Department member, lead taster for the wine regions of languedoc-roussillon, beaujolais, and Southwest France, and lead taster for the table wines of portugal, she works in the practical center of assessment, where the job is to track nuance across distinct regions and keep attention fixed on balance, character, and detail. Since 2012, the Restaurant Awards Program at Wine Spectator has added another layer to that remit. As director of Wine Spectator's Restaurant Awards Program of Wine Spectator, Gillian Sciaretta brings the same steady palate to awards work, where consistency and judgment matter year after year. The role sits at the point where tasting meets hospitality, and it depends on the kind of rigor that can hold across large volumes of work without losing precision.

Where They Are Now

The current post is director of the Restaurant Awards Program at Wine Spectator. Gillian Sciaretta's work there remains centered on evaluation and recognition, extending the same standards that shape her tasting assignments.

In Their Words “I specialize at Gary’s in helping people discover wines from these parts of the world and beyond.” The line points to a practical part of the job: guiding drinkers through regions with enough clarity to make the category legible, and enough range to keep it open. In Gillian Sciaretta's work, discovery is less about theatrics than about making place, style, and selection easier to read. That 2014 credential marks the formal study behind the tasting work. The WSET (Wine & Spirits Education Trust) level 3 advanced signals structured training that supports the sensory and evaluative demands of her day-to-day roles.

Honors

In context, the credential sits alongside Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and the long-running role beginning in 2012 as director of Wine Spectator's Restaurant Awards Program of Wine Spectator. It reads as part of a profile built on formal study, repeated assessment, and sustained work in service-facing wine evaluation.