Cassandra Charlick is an award-winning wine journalist, wine judge, travel and food writer, and television presenter. She is an in-demand host and MC thanks to her warm, engaging tone, industry expertise, and 20+ years in the entertainment industry. In addition to MCing events, Cassandra facilitates wine masterclasses and tastings for trade and consumers and is regularly called upon for commentary at wine tastings.

Alongside her role as the Western Australian and Tasmanian correspondent and critic for Decanter, she authors an almost-weekly national wine column for Delicious, and her “Travel by the Glass” column can be found in International Traveller. Cassandra regularly contributes to publications including Halliday Magazine, Delicious Magazine, Escape, Australian Traveller, T Magazine, Luxury Traveller, Wine Pilot, and Ray Jordan's Wine Review. She is a television presenter on Channel Nine's Our State on a Plate and has MCed and hosted at some of Australia’s most prestigious food and wine events and festivals, including The Good Food and Wine Show, Effervescence Festival, Paird Festival, Shore Leave Festival and Truffle Kerfuffle.

Cassandra is the 2024 IWSC Emerging Wine Communicator of the Year award winner and recipient of the 2024 Sydney Royal Wine Professional Development Scholarship. In 2023, Cassandra was awarded a fellowship at the Wine Writers Symposium in Napa Valley.

“Wine should be, above all, enjoyable and facilitate connection and understanding between people and place. Sustainability and accessibility are two key values that drive my work in the world of wine.”

When her nose isn’t in a wine glass, you can catch her behind the microphone. She spent over twenty years treading the boards globally, from London to Tokyo, as a singer and actor before settling in two of Australia’s wine paradises –  Wooditjup / Margaret River and Lutruwita /Tasmania.