Meet Stephanie Artner

Meet Stephanie Artner

Stephanie Artner © Florian Smetana

Stephanie is a passionate ambassador of the international wine industry. For fifteen years, she has been creating marketing campaigns, tasting events, and educational programs for a wide range of wine associations, brands, and winemakers in North America, and now also in Europe.




Between 2008 and 2016 Stephanie organized wine tasting events and masterclasses that hosted over thousand professionals for the Austrian Wine Marketing Board in Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. These events offered important networking opportunities with top Sommeliers and media that allowed her to build strong relationships around the country.

In 2017 Stephanie joined the Quebec-based educational platform Somm360. Together with its founder Vincent Lafortune, and the Event Manager Emilie Althot-Robitaille, she organized the first Sommelier Conference in Canada that hosted 300 leading international sommeliers and wine professionals from over 20 countries. You can find a recap of the event here

In the summer of 2020, due to Covid, Somm360 developed a free online training program for professionals worldwide. In her role as Director of Content and Partnerships, she established a network of over 100 top international Sommeliers and helped to connect wine associations, brands, and winemakers with over 2.000 wine professionals in more than 80 countries. "Somm360's new online platform allowed MAISON M. CHAPOUTIER to stay engaged with the Sommelier community during a very challenging time. Stephanie was our key contact for the whole project which she managed with ease and professionalism from the get-go. I hope we get a chance to work together again," says Marion Tricoire, Export Manager Canada, MAISON M. CHAPOUTIER.

Since calling New York and Montreal her home for over a decade, she relocated with her family back to Vienna this fall. Stephanie is looking forward to continuing her passionate work for the international wine and sommelier industry and is excited to collaborate with »Sylvia Petz - Agentur für organisierten Genuss« on new projects. "I really appreciate Sylvia's focus on sustainability and the quality of her customers. Her European network is remarkable and, in connection with my international one, unique."

Among her clients at SOMM360 were the Austrian Wine Marketing Board, Bordeaux Wine School, Coravin, François Chartier - Créateur d'harmonies, MAISON M. CHAPOUTIER, Sweet Bordeaux, Premium Estates Austria, Japan Sake and Shochu Association, Les Domaines Paul Mas, Masi, Wines of Sicilia DOC, Wines of Rias Baixas, Wine Australia, Wines of Germany, and more.
Other important references are the Austrian Wine Marketing Board, Wein Burgenland, Winery Gesellmann, and Winery Harkamp.