W. Blake Gray is the US Editor for Wine Searcher, the world’s most-visited wine website.

In 2013 he won the Roederer Award for Best Online Wine Columnist; it was the last year that category was awarded. He won Best Industry Blog in 2012 at the Wine Blog Awards. He was previously a wine writer/editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, and food editor at SF Weekly.

Gray has written about wine for publications including Wine Business Monthly, the Los Angeles Times, Food & Wine, Wine & Spirits, World of Fine Wine and Beverage Media Journal. He lives in San Francisco.