Kavita Faiella

After working with a number of Australia’s most celebrated chefs, including Stefano Manfredi and Neil Perry, Kavita Faiella set her sights on Asia. Firstly, in the Maldives, as head sommelier of the renowned Conrad property and then as the regional cellar master for Amanresorts, where she developed the wine programs for some of the world’s most luxurious properties in Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, India, and Sri Lanka. In 2010 she became the wine director of the Press Room Group, where she was responsible for twelve of the city’s most well-known restaurants.

Faiella’s work saw her named as one of the 10 most influential wine personalities in India by CNN and 20 most influential people in the Hong Kong food and beverage scene by Time Out. Today, having returned from overseas in 2015, Faiella is now based once again in Sydney, where she works for Shaw+Smith, Tolpuddle Vineyard, MMAD Vineyard, and The Other Wine Co. as their Marketing Manager + Market Manager.

In 2017 she participated in the prestigious Len Evans Tutorial, and in 2019 she graduated from Wine Australia’s intensive Future Leaders program. She most recently was a key contributor to How to Drink Australian, published by Murdoch Books in mid-2023. She has a young son, so spends most of her spare time at the park.