Matthew Kristofik
Past Chairman of American Wine Society Commercial Wine Competition
Past Chairman of American Wine Society Commercial Wine Competition
- Retired from United States Navy, Submarine Service
- Graduate of St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA - BS Biology
- Retired from West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, Neurosurgical Research
- Member of American Wine Society, 1983 - Present
- American Wine Society Outstanding Member, 1998
- Chair, American Wine Society Commercial Wine Competition, 1989 - 2006
- Chair, Festa Italiana Amateur Wine Competition, Vandergrift, PA 2004 - 2016
- Judge, Finger Lakes International Wine Competition, Rochester, NY, 2004 - 2016
- Judge, Great American International Wine Competition, Rochester, NY, 2017 - present
- Judge, North Carolina State Wine Competition, 2018 - 2020
- Judge, Atlantic Seaboard Wine Competition, 2013 - present
- Judge, Pittsburgh Amateur Wine Competition, 1989 - 2019
- Presents wine education/seminars for the Alle-Kiski and Pittsburgh Chapters of the American Wine Society