Doug Frost is an American

United States

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 Master of Wine

Master of Wine

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, and Master Sommelier a well as an author

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 and wine

Wine

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 consultant based in Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri

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, Missouri

Missouri

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.

Frost is one of three individials in the world to simultaneously hold the Master of Wine and Master Sommelier titles, along with Gerard Basset

Gerard Basset

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 and Ronn Wiegand, achieving his MS in 1991 and MW in 1993.

Frost is a wine and spirits consultant for United Airlines

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, and is published in several works and periodicals, including The Oxford Companion to Wine

The Oxford Companion to Wine

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, Tom Stevenson

Tom Stevenson

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's Wine Report, San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle

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and Wine & Spirits

Wine & Spirits

Wine & Spirits is an American wine magazine. With offices in New York and San Francisco, the magazine publishes eight issues annually.In addition to publisher and editor-in-chief Joshua Greene, among the contributors are Tara Q. Thomas, Patrick Comiskey, Patricio Tapia, Peter Liem, with additional...

. His published books are Uncorking Wine (1996), On Wine (2001) and Far From Ordinary Spanish Wine Buying Guide (2005). Frost also hosts the show "Check Please Kansas City" for KC Public Television.

External links

• Doug Frost official site