About

Charles W. Borden is Communications Director of OnLine M&A, a Paris-based information service that publishes mid-market mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity information about markets worldwide (www.onlinema.com). For the past five years he has also been Contributing Editor and Wine and Dine Reviewer for Moscow’s Passport Magazine (www.passportmagazine.com). Since 2003 he has contributed to the annual edition of Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book, one of the world’s most important wine books, which is also published in Russian.

Mr. Borden worked with wineries of the former Soviet Union from 1992 to 2000. He was the first westerner to bring modern packaging to wineries in southern Russia, which during the Soviet period had little or no bottling facilities. He was responsible for two joint ventures to package some of Russia’s best wines using the modern bag-in-box system. Bag-in-box has now been adopted by many Russian wineries.
  

Mr. Borden is also Director and Editor for GlobalFlavor, a Traveler’s Guide to the World’s Best Restaurants, which consists of a proprietary consensus rating system, which is available online and in print guidebooks (www.global-flavor.com). He is author of Borden’s Best World Restaurants – 2008, Best Restaurants – Europe 2010 and other books in this series.

Charles is past editor of the English language magazines Aeroflot, Russian Fine Art, and Russians: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Charles is Moscow’s “consummate wine buyer” – a consumer’s friend, expert in the intricacies and complications that a shopper faces when buying a wine at a restaurant or shop in Russia.