Tim McDonald

Tim has over 40 years of proven success in the spirits & wines industry with positions in public relations, trade relations, marketing and sales, event management and beverage education. His experience includes positions at prominent adult beverage companies; such as E&J Gallo where he served as Marketing Director Fine Wine Communications, Jim Beam at Peak Wines as V.P. of Marketing and Communications, Trinchero Family Estates as Director of Trade Relations, with Heublein as Spirits & Wines as Director of Trade & Public Relations, and sales assignments with both Seagram Distillers and Heublein.

​Tim has served as a Wine and Spirits Judge at over 200 wine and spirit competitions in North America. He is currently the Director of Wine Judging at the San Francisco International Wine Competition and the Chief Judge at the California Craft Spirits and Central Coast Wines Competitions.