Kerin okeefe biography

American wine critic and author

Kerin O'Keefe is a wine critic specialized in Italian wine and author of four books. She reviews wines and writes articles on the growing areas, wines and producers for kerinokeefe.com.

O'Keefe was Italian Editor for Wine Enthusiast from May 2013^[2] until June 2022.

From 2002 to 2013, she wrote regularly on Italian wine for Decanter and from 2004 for The World of Fine Wine. She was also Contributing Editor for The Wine News from 2003 to 2009.^[4][2]

Career

Kerin O’Keefe holds a degree in English literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and also studied English and American literature for a year at the University of East Anglia.^[5] O'Keefe has a keen interest in fine Italian wine made from autochthonous grape varieties.^[5] She has been acknowledged to be "one of the great wine commentators on Italy"^[6] and "a critic in the best sense of the word, not