It’s #Timetowine is a live broadcast on the 2nd and 4th Monday of the Month at 9am PST. I feature experts in Wine, Social Media Marketing, Leadership & Marketing Executives. I feature each speaker on Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. My 2nd Broadcast is a Live Stream international Broadcast on Linkedin, Youtube, and Facebook Live on the 1st and 3rd Friday of the Month at 11am PST.
Melissa Sutherland describes herself as a global citizen, passionate Capetonian, wine tourism promoter, professional tour guide and entrepreneur. A graduate of the University of Cape Town, where she majored in English and French, Melissa is conversant in Afrikaans, French and German. Melissa returned to Cape Town in 2006 having lived and worked for more than a decade in New Yorkand Sydney. In the early years of South Africa’s democracy she served as a Vice-Consul for Political and Cultural Affairs in New York. After completing a Diploma in Publishing and Editing she worked for McGraw-Hill Educational Publishers in Sydney where she lived for 5 years.In 2008 she started her own company to share and connect people and opportunities around the wonderful worlds of wine, art and travel. During the 2010 World Cup hosted by South Africa she was selected to be a local storyteller as part of Cape Town Tourism’s ‘Beyond the 90 Minutes’ campaign. For twenty five years Melissa’s parents owned a wine farm in the beautiful Cape Winelands and she developed a passion for wine and wine tourism completing the Certificate Course through the Cape Wine Academy and qualifying as a Professional Tour Guide in 2011.When not guiding, conducting research and writing, she enjoys organizing painting days in the country and her weekly art classes. Melissa is interested in history and enjoys writing biography and memoir as it captures the past for future generations. She recently wrote a book on the South African artist Frank Spears. She is also a blogger who has been shortlisted in international competitions for her wine tourism blogs.Melissa, who lives in Cape Town with her husband and two teenagers, enjoys nothing more than sharing her love of South Africa and showcasing the best of what South Africa has to offer to well-travelled, seasoned and discerning visitors.
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