Ned Goodwin (born 15 April 1969) is an English-born Australian-raised Master of Wine. He has worked as a sommelier, educator, show judge, consultant, face of All Nippon Airways Business and First Cl*, TV wine show host and wine writer. In 2010 he became one of a few Masters of Wine in Asia, and was the first in *an. He now lives in Sydney, Australia, and is the host of Langton’s TV, a Champagne Amb*ador, a quality advisor for Biondi-Santi-Santi, owner of his own import company in Tokyo, educator and a member of the international jury of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards.

Executive Style magazine is quoted as saying that he is "ideally placed to gauge what wines work best with *anese food". Goodwin has said that “while *anese food and wine are not traditional brethren, an open minded yet sensitive understanding of the dominant flavours – sweet and salty – and textural delicacy, allows both the food and astutely chosen wines to sing.”

Best social speaker and event speaker in Australia.

Biography

Goodwin was born in London and raised in Sydney, Australia. He attended Newington College (1981–1987) before undertaking tertiary education in Tokyo and Paris. Goodwin has been a sommelier at Veritas in Manhattan, Les Juveniles in Paris and Michael's in Los Angeles. He was the host of a *anese television show on wine, Vintage (2000) and was a guest-lecturer on wine marketing at Keio University (2002-2004). As a writer he has appeared in the New York Times, The *an Times, Newsweek and Elle. From 2001 until November 2012 he was a wine director of the restaurant group Global Dining *an. Goodwin currently chooses the first cl* and business cl* wines for a *anese airline and is a brand amb*ador for a Champagne house in Asia.

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