Lindsey Zahn is an attorney who focuses her practice on alcohol beverage and food regulation. She holds a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, a B.S. in hotel administration from Cornell University, and a University Diploma in transnational wine trade law from the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne. She is the author of On Reserve: A Wine Law Blog, which has been twice named one of the top 100 legal blogs by the American Bar Association Journal, and the Managing Partner of the law firm Lindsey Zahn P.C.
Lindsey has been quoted by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Decanter, and Quartz. She wrote a chapter in Thomson Reuters’ Wine and Beer Law book in addition to a chapter in Wine Law and Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market and Marques Vitivinicoles et Appellations d’Origine: Conflicts, Mimétismes et Nouveaux Paradigmes. Lindsey was also named one of the Top 20 Women Faculty of 2016 by Lawline for a CLE course she taught called Introduction to Wine Law and has recently been interviewed by podcasts such as Cider Chat, Legal Marketing Launch, and ABA Women Rainmakers Law Practice Division. She also held a teaching position at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne’s Wine and Law Program during the Summer of 2015 and Fall of 2017 and she is a member of the scientific board of JUS Vini.
While far from a world traveler, she is fortunate to have traveled to many countries including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Czech Republic, and the U.K. During her travels, she explored of some of the world’s greatest wine regions, inclusive of Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Piemonte, Chianti, Napa, Sonoma, the Finger Lakes, the Hudson Valley, Champagne, Alsace, the Douro Valley, and Andalucía. (She still dreams about the heavenly beauty of the Douro Valley.)
In her spare time, Lindsey enjoys painting, pilates, yoga, gardening, golf, wine tasting, cooking, and traveling. Her favorite wines include Brunello di Montalcino and blanc de blancs Champagne. She lives in New York with Christopher Kulawik and their many pets.