California-based Master of Wine and industry professional with over twenty years of experience in wine production, sales, and education will strengthen the judging panel at USA Wine Ratings.

Category Lead Buyer for Spirits & More for the BevMo! Chain will join the 2021 USA Spirits Ratings judging in San Francisco.

Mollie Battenhouse MW, National Director of Wine Education at Jackson Family Wines and also a partner at Wine Ring joins the judging panel at the 2021 USA Wine Ratings.

Tim Marson is a master of wine from the USA and currently working as a senior buyer at wine.com.

Giving a rating to just liquid, blind has its place in the market and is very important, but that is different to when I have to decide what to put on the shelf. The USA Spirits Ratings competition is closer to the way I make chain assortment decisions. - Jeff

Rob Mason and Jenny Gates bring over 30 years of operations and strategic expertise in the spirits industry.

"To assess a wine on not only quality but also its package, design, and price is so important," Ashley Hausman Judge at the 2021 USA Wine Ratings.

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As the clock ticks down on entries for the 2021 USA Wine Ratings competition - early bird pricing ends on April 30 - we talk to Bob Paulinski MW about his wide ranging career as a wine buyer and why he is happy to be a judge in the event.

Ask Caledonia Spirits that was awarded the ultimate 100 point score in the 2020 USA Spirits Ratings the first time a perfect score has been awarded since the event was first launched in 2017.