Lisa's wine career began by happenstance when, living as a struggling playwright in London after college, she was offered a job as the manager of a wine bar and then promptly enrolled at WSET. She progressed through wine sales and marketing roles in the UK wine trade throughout the ‘90s and early 00's before moving to Tokyo in 2002, where she worked as a wine buyer for one of Japan's top fine wine importers and a wine educator at Tokyo's Academie du Vin. In 2008 Lisa moved to Singapore and began writing a column for Robert Parker’s website, eRobertParker.com. Later that year she achieved her Master of Wine qualification and the Madame Bollinger Medal for excellence in wine tasting. In 2013 she became the Editor in Chief for Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate and eRobertParker.com and remains the publication’s critic for the wines of Australia and New Zealand. In 2015 Lisa’s first book, Taste Like a Wine Critic: A Guide to Understanding Wine Quality, was published.