Wine Writing & Content Creation/SEO | Wine Education Consultant | Historian of Wine

Charlie Leary offers expertise in two broad areas related to wine and the wine industry:

• wine writing, content creation, and SEO
• web page reviews for wineries and wine retailers, including on-page SEO, marketing strategy, tags, and html content
• as an historian of wine, including researching and writing business history and the history of particular regions, wineries, estates, or families

Charlie Leary, CSWS, AWS, HBSC

Currently a wine education and marketing consultant for a disruptive tech startup that uses virtual reality and artificial intelligence, Charlie also directed numerous successful wine programs and trained sommelier students. He is available to consult on wine investments, wine studies projects, as well as marketing and wine SEO. 
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A published author, Charlie penned a cookbook on Creole cuisine for Random House in 2004. His comprehensive guide to worldwide wine education programs was published in 2022. He developed a wine and food column for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald newspaper in 2017, and currently writes dozens of articles and wine content for an award-winning U.S. wine retailer as well as Beverage Trade Network publications such as Sommelier Business. He has studied search engine optimization (SEO), with a focus on wine SEO, at the University of California, Davis. Charlie has performed SEO on various hospitality-, food-, and wine-related websites since the early 2000s. To further hone his wine writing skills, Charlie completed a 4-course Specialization in writing and editing from the University of Michigan. He serves as a freelance editor with the Center for Excellence in Business & Finance at Editage/Cactus Communications, having earned Expert Editor status. 
Charlie is a wine market expert, researcher, educator, and consultant. 

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Wine Writing & Content

Charlie writes on wine and also provides wine content for various businesses worldwide, advising on search engine optimization (SEO). He is an expert on contemporary wine education. 

Wine Training & Education

Charlie provide restaurant and retail staff training in wine, wine sales, and wine service in Panama. He has 30 years of experience running restaurant wine programs. 

Wine Product Photography

Working with David Hernandez in Panama City, Charlie provides wine product photography services, both on-site and in-studio.

Personnel Training in Wine & Wine Service: Restaurants & Hotels

Charlie designed and managed wine programs for hotels and restaurants in New Orleans, France's Black Perigord, Nova Scotia, Costa Rica, and Panama. His 27 years of hospitality wine experience, combined with recognized industry certifications, can help you bring your restaurant wine list or wine program to the next level. 

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Want to begin doing business in Panama? You will find that the economy welcomes direct foreign investment. Charlie has visited Panama since 1997 looking at business opportunities and moved here in 2020. 

In most instances, the government of this Central American country treats domestic and foreign capital in the same manner.  Businesses in Panama may be foreign-owned or may be organized as joint ventures, for the most part, without restriction. In addition to private sector activities, the government of Panama permits foreign investment in public sector projects unless specifically prohibited by law.  (Doing business in Panama in the retail sector is, however, limited to Panamanian nationals as is the purchase of real estate located within 10 kilometers of the Colombian and Costa Rican borders, for strategic reasons). 

Those doing business in Panama will find that there are no registration requirements for capital and that the transfer of funds into the country is not taxable.  Additionally, there are no controls on the repatriation of capital or retained earnings for foreign companies doing business in Panama.

The local currency, the Balboa, is at par with the US Dollar., and the economy has been fully dollarized for decades  The paper money that circulates in Panama is the US Dollar, while the Balboa is used only in coin form. Panama is home to the Panama Canal and Panama City is a regional financial and services center. Colon is home to the second largest free trade zone in the world, after Hong Kong.