Rachel DelRocco Terrazas is a Tucson, Arizona-based media consultant, writer, and editor with 20 years of experience in the beverage and hospitality industries. Her work includes writing on wine, spirits, and the intersection of beverage with wellness, sobriety, art, and culture and has been published in national and international publications. Her consulting work serves clients in the food, drink, and travel industries by providing event programming, content audits, production and project operations, and copywriting for business plans, executive summaries, and marketing decks.
Her writing appears in Eater National, Edible Houston, Somm Journal, The Tasting Panel, and Barleycorn Drinks. She was formerly Editor-in-Chief at Armenia-based Origins Magazine, Associate Editor and Spirits Writer at Wine & Spirits Magazine, and Editor-in-Chief at The Vintner Project. She has also served as an editor-mentor at the 2020 TexSom International Wine Awards. She is a Contributing Writer for A Balanced Glass, a forum and media outlet connecting wine professionals with tools, resources, and community to support mental health.
Rachel has won numerous awards and has been included as one of the Imbibe 75, FSR’s 40 Under 40, and an Eater Young Gun in 2015 and holds the title of 2016 TexSom Best Sommelier. Rachel is a spirits judge for John Barleycorn and the American Craft Spirits Association. In addition, Rachel has spoken at conferences such as TexSom, Tales of the Cocktail, BevCon, Bar Convent Brooklyn, and San Antonio Cocktail Conference and has been interviewed on multiple podcasts. She speaks on mental health and social issues in the food and beverage industries, using her hospitality experience and political organizing work with federal, state, and local campaigns. She is a Certified Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers and a member of the Les Dames d’Escoffier, Phoenix Chapter.
Rachel spends her free time doing crossword puzzles, reading thriller novels, baking, hiking, and lurking around art museums. You can find her on social media @racheldelrocco on Instagram.
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