Cheryl Doherty is co-founder and CEO of The Old Triangle Irish Alehouse, now a quartet of Irish restaurants and pubs located throughout the Maritimes. She is an accredited CAPS Sommelier and WSET Diploma. Cheryl is a certified Traincan Food Safety instructor as well as a certified OHES WHIMIS Trainer. She has been a guest educator for The Nova Scotia Community College for the past six years teaching food and wine pairing to second year culinary students. She writes a regular wine column for Refined Magazine and is President of the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers – Atlantic Chapter, and also a member of the CAPS National Board. She resides near Halifax, Nova Scotia with her husband Brian. where they oversee their family businesses with their two adult sons. She spends her free time indulging in passions for food, wine, books, travel, needlework and gardening.