Josh Farrell, Wine Director of WineExpress.com has 20 years of experience as one of America’s foremost wine merchants and wine tasters. In the 80’s and early 90’s he was a restaurant buyer for some of New York’s top restaurants, becoming Cellar Master and Sommelier at the legendary Windows on the World.

During his tenure at Windows he did all of the buying for the restaurant’s 2,000 selection wine list and 100,000 bottle cellar. Josh was particularly adept at matching the prixe-fixe haut cuisine menu for the innovative Cellar in the Sky restaurant with spectacular wine pairings. He was mentored by the famous wine educator and author Kevin Zraly, selecting and purchasing all of the wines for Mr. Zraly’s well known Windows on the World Wine School.

In the past with Wine Enthusiast Companies, Josh has worked as a Wine Storage Consultant for Wine Enthusiast catalog and a Tasting Editor and Contributing Editor for Wine Enthusiast Magazine, tasting and covering the world of wine. That experience and the many relationships he has developed in the world of wine have served him extremely well as Wine Director for WineExpress.com. Josh has traveled the vineyards of the world extensively from Oregon and California, to Spain, Italy and France. Most recently Josh visited Bordeaux for the unveiling of the 2005’s, the Rhone Valley and Northern Italy, where he’s unearthed new hidden gems to offer his WineExpress.com customers.

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