Regine T. Rousseau

Regine T. Rousseau, is a Chicagoan and the Founder and CEO of Shall We Wine, a strategic marketing company. She is a contributor to WGN’s Daytime Chicago TV Show among other local TV shows around the US. She is a wine and spirits entrepreneur, writer, presenter, and media personality, focusing on making wine knowledge accessible to people at all levels of proficiency. She is recognized as 2022 Leader in the Wine Industry by Wine Magazine Monthly, a nominee of 2020 Wine Enthusiast Wine Star Awards, Wine Educator of the Year, a WSET Level 3 with Merit, an International Sommelier Guild Level II, and Executive Bourbon Steward, Stave and Thief. Regine has traveled around the globe sharing her wine and spirits expertise. She has authored or been featured in articles in the The Drop, New Yorker, Wine Enthusiast, Pix Wine, Black Enterprise, Black Food and Beverage, Wine Spectator, the Zoe Report, Forbes and Chicago Tribune. Regine is the author of Searching for Cloves and Lilies: The Wine Edition, a book that pairs her original poems with wines.