Wine critic Antonio Galloni was born in Caracas (Venezuela), where his parents ran a food and wine business and later moved to Florida (USA). He studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston (Massachusetts), founded a rock band, studied at the MIT Sloan School of Business in Cambridge and began writing about wine during this time. He worked full-time in marketing.

After moving to Italy, he published the "Piedmont Report" in 2004, the first English-language magazine on Italian wine. This brought him into contact with the US wine critic Robert M. Parker, who hired him for his tasting team at the Wine Advocate. From 2006 to 2013, he was responsible for evaluating wines from Italy, California and the French regions of Burgundy, Chablis, Champagne and Côte d'Or.
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