Welcome to The Ross Report
Perfectly unpolished. Occasionally chaotic. Always entertaining.
The Ross Report is the home of Marissa A. Ross: writer, former Bon Appétit wine editor, author of Wine. All The Time., ex-comedian, life-long leisure enthusiast, and all-around overthinker.
Expect wine reviews and personal essays delivered with her signature blend of humor, insight, and irreverence. It’s unfiltered, occasionally profane, deeply conversational and unapologetically, very Marissa.
Disclaimer: Posts may contain strong language, adult themes, and art featuring nudity. It’s a newsletter, not a PTA meeting.
About Marissa A. Ross
Marissa A. Ross is a writer, editor, and artist. She is best known for her candid, conversational approach to wine criticism, her analog collages and comedy.
She began her career in comedy, training at the Upright Citizens Brigade and working as Mindy Kaling’s assistant before creating the web series Wine Time for Hello Giggles in 2011. In 2012, she launched the blog Wine. All The Time., which became a cult favorite for its irreverent takes on wine and culture.
Ross served as the wine editor for Bon Appétit from 2015 to 2020, where she helped usher in a new era of natural wine coverage and demystified the language of wine for a national audience. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, VICE Muchies, Elle, Wine Enthusiast and more. Her 2017 book, Wine. All The Time.: The Casual Guide to Confident Drinking, has been praised for making wine education accessible without condescension.
After stepping away from the wine industry in 2020, Ross returned in 2025 with The Ross Report, to share more bottles she thinks you’ll love and opinions that you may or may not like (she doesn’t care either way).
She is also the creator of Stepdad Collages, an analog collage project that reworks mid-century imagery to explore larger cultural themes of domesticity, gender roles, desire, and discrimination.
She lives in Los Angeles with her Pomeranian Groucho Barx, attends as many Clippers games as possible and is probably listening to Martin Denny or Kendrick Lamar while flipping through a 1960s coffee table book. Her home doubles as a living archive of random vintage artifacts and Disneyland tombstones. She is represented by CAA.
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Because you like wine.
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Also… wine is expensive. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
