Katherine Cole is the host and executive producer of The Four Top, an IACP-award-winning national food and beverage podcast presented by Oregon Public Broadcasting and streamed on NPR One. Katherine was the wine columnist for The Oregonian newspaper for thirteen years.

She is featured in the acclaimed documentary American Wine Story, was named to the -Imbibe 75- list of -the people, places and flavors that will help shape the way we all drink, and has contributed to national and international food and wine publications.

A graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Katherine has taught journalism courses at Portland State University and studied with the International Sommelier Guild.

She is author of How to Fake Your Way through a Wine List, Complete Wine Selector, and Voodoo Vintners and lives with her two daughters and dog in Portland, Oregon.