Maia Parish - Sommelier | Solopreneur | Foodie
Maia Parish is the owner of The Wine Suite and creator of The Tales of a Wine Mistress blog. Her events and tastings are featured at national festivals and tradeshows. She has her own broadcast called Tales of a Wine Mistress, on iGTV, Facebook Watch, and Twitter Live. Maia is a Wine Judge for the Denver International Wine Competition, Drink Pink Vino International Festival, Port and Fortified, and the Pairsine Food and Wine Competitions. She is a guest panelist for the 2016 Wine Bloggers Conference and was featured in the Women in Wine Issue for R.H. Drexel's Loam Baby Volume 6, and was voted as the under over 40 Top African Americans in Wine. She was also published in SommJourmal with Karen McNeil's the Status of Women in the Wine Industry. Swirl Suite and is working on 2 upcoming podcasts. She is a former private caterer and events producer.
Our Wine Mistress is a certified sommelier and has wine education credentials which include: an Intermediate and Advanced Certification with the International Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET) based in London. She is currently studying for the Certified Specialist of Wine (CSW) under the Society of Wine Educators. She is mid-coastal and performs services in Denver, Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, and Northern California. Ms. Parish is a Wine Ambassador for The Boisset Collection for legendary winemaker Jean-Charles Boisset. She was a former private caterer.
Ms. Parish also owns and operates Parish Media LLC. Parish Media specializes in Social Media Start up's, Passive Income Creation and Social Media Take Over's.
She has a B.A in Communication Studies and Broadcasting, almost M.A in Human Resource and Organizational Development. She is Bi-Lingual and can speak Spanglish.
Maia is a Mom of one, sister to many, friend to food, a semi-tech nerd, TV fanatic, big hair and don't care fashionista, entrepreneur. She lives in Denver. She lives to learn and educate people about the total wine lifestyle, why because pouring make her happy.
Maia Parish WSET
CSW Candidate
The Wine Suite