Beppi Crosariol
Beppi Crosariol writes about wine and spirits in the Globe Life and Style sections.
He has been The Globe's wine and spirits columnist for more than 10 years. In the late 1990s, he also wrote a food trends column called The Biting Edge.
Mr. Crosariol used to cover business law for ROB and previously edited the paper’s weekly technology section. He was also an editor in the business and arts sections at various times.
Prior to joining The Globe in 1995, he worked as a technology reporter at The Boston Globe and, before that, the Financial Times of Canada. He started his career at the Kingston Whig-Standard, where he moved through a variety of positions, including editorial writer and assistant city editor.
Mr. Crosariol has a master’s degree in the philosophy of science from the University of Toronto and was a Knight fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1990s. He has won a silver national magazine award and five Canadian Science Writers Association awards.
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