Philippe Newlin

Philippe Newlin is the programming director of Devour.tv, a food and wine internet-tv channel. Newlin recently left his position as Associate Editor and Tasting Director of Wine & Spirits Magazine where he spent the last two years running the magazine’s tasting program.

Newlin holds the Diploma degree of the Wine and Spirits Education Trust of London. Philippe also teaches at Columbia University’s School of Business Administration where his introduction to wine classes sell-out quickly.

A native New Yorker, Philippe graduated from Trinity College with a B.A. in political science, and from Columbia’s School of International Affairs with a master’s degree in diplomacy. Newlin has driven a yellow cab in NYC, lived in the jungles of South America as a Peace Corps volunteer, and spent fourteen years on Wall Street trading floors as a currency trader before succumbing to the pleasures of the grape.