Along with my colleagues at Wine Review Online, I’m delighted to welcome Roger Morris to our ranks. Roger is a widely traveled, highly skilled, broadly published wine writer who is well known to many of our contributors. Odds are that many of our regular readers will also have seen his by-line, as Roger contributes regularly to World of Fine Wine, Drinks Business, Wine & Spirits, Meininger’s, VinePair, Global Drinks Intel, Santé and The Drop…among others.
That’s quite a list of prestigious publications, and given the fact that many more people wish to write about wine than manage to do so, the list is attributable to the fact that Roger can really write—and takes great care to 
know what he’s writing about.
know what he’s writing about.He’s been a full-time writer specializing in wine, food and travel for the past 20 years. Roger began writing about wine in 1979 for the late Washington Star, was the first wine columnist for USA Today and wrote features for Saveur it its early, high-flying days as a premier culinary publication.
His academic credentials are also impressive. Roger holds degrees from the University of Charleston (BA in Political Science) and the University of Illinois (the big one, in Urbana-Champagne; an MS in Communications). Not one to rest on his laurels, he resumed studies during the pandemic to complete an MA in Liberal Studies from the University of Delaware. He’s done his share of teaching as well as learning, having taught journalism and film criticism at Arizona State University.
Roger and his wife, Ella Morris, are natives of West Virginia but have lived in the Delaware region since 1973. From that base of operations, he worked at DuPont from 1973 to 1999 in corporate PR and pharmaceuticals marketing. Shifting to full-time writing around the turn of the millennium, he has made more than 100 reporting trips to wine regions, mostly in Europe and South America, during the first two decades of the current century.
I encourage you to check out Roger’s first column—running in this week’s issue of WRO—to get a sense the perspective he’s gained from all those trips to South America and his broader life experiences. Many tributaries can be seen contributing to Roger’s columns, and in turn, many insights will flow from them to our readers.
Roger…welcome aboard!
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