Margaret Swaine Margaret is an international award-winning wine, spirits, food, spas, golf and travel writer. She is the bi-weekly culinary travel columnist (Global Gourmet) for Travel Industry Today, the spirit columnist for WineAlign, and golf and travel columnist for Kawarthas Magazine. She spent 16 years writing feature articles, wine critiques and culinary travel columns for the National Post, she wrote the spirit and cocktail columns for Zoomer magazine and for 6 years was the spa columnist for Best Health. She was the wine and drink columnist for Toronto Life and Chatelaine for over two decades. She is a founder and first president of the Wine Writers Circle of Canada. She has served as an expert witness in several wine disputes, and participated as a wine judge in global competitions in Canada, Italy, New Zealand, France, Austria, Australia and on. Margaret constantly travels the world in search of the next great story or experience.