Cindy Rynning

Cindy holds a WSET Level 3 certification and is a freelance wine, food and travel writer who is the founder/owner/author of award-winning wine blog Grape Experiences, one of the Feedspot's 100 Best Wine Blogs You Must Follow in 2023. Cindy engages in national and international wine travels, hosts virtual tastings, attends global trade tastings and media events, meets and interviews winemakers and others who share their stories, and writes about tastings, food and wine pairings, wine travel, and more. She is a member of the esteemed Circle of Wine Writers and her work has been published in Wine Enthusiast, The Tasting Panel Magazine, The Somm Journal and other digital and print publications. Cindy is featured on local television stations including Good Day Chicago Fox 32, WGN-TV Channel 9, The Jam on Chicago's WCIU TV, Good Day Sacramento (The CW31), The Rhode Show WPRI Channel 12,Colorado's Best Fox 31 Denver, Good Day Philadelphia Fox 29, NBC Miami Six in the Mix and Yahoo Finance. She is also the co-host of YouTube's wine video series, Crush On This and is a wine judge in the Central Coast Wine Competition. 

Cindy lives in Paso Robles, California wine country and fuels her passion for wine with travels to regions worldwide, shared conversations that inspire and a chilled bottle of grower Champagne.