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READ MORE- Brett Anderson 2008
Brett Anderson is currently Senior Vice President of Editorial Development for Curtco Media and has been with the management team since 1989. He has more than 15 years of experience developing and launching publications in a wide range of industries.
READ MORE- Eric Asimov 2007
ERIC ASIMOV is the chief wine critic of The New York Times, a position he assumed in June 2004 after having covered wine with The Times's tasting panel and in his "Tastings" column for the Dining section.
READ MORE- Dan Berger 2007
DAN BERGER began writing about wine in 1976 and today his column is syndicated nationally by Creators Syndicate to newspapers around the world. He and his wife, Juliann Savage, also publish a weekly wine newsletter, Dan Berger's Vintage Experiences, available only by subscription. He contributes articles to Gourmet magazine, Wine Press Northwest, Decanter Magazine in London; the California Grapevine and writes for many trade journals and websites including Cheers, AppellationAmerica.com, and Beverage Dynamics.
READ MORE- Corie Brown 2009
Corie Brown, until recently the Los Angeles Times food section's wine writer, found her stories at the nexus of agriculture, money, consumer interest, evolving culture mores, personality, glamour and hard news, according to her editor Susan La Tempa.
READ MORE- Tyler Colman 2009
Tyler Colman talks, teaches and writes about wine in articles, books, appearances and on his popular blog, DrVino.com
READ MORE- Bill Daley 2008
Bill Daley is a food and wine critic with The Chicago Tribune. He writes a weekly wine column, "Uncorked," for "Good Eating," the Tribune's food section. His column in Sunday's Q section, "Daley Drink," answers questions from readers on wine, beer and spirits. In tackling the food and wine beat, Daley also covers chefs and food personalities, cooking techniques and trends.
READ MORE- Anthony Dias Blue 2007
ANTHONY DIAS BLUE is recognized world-wide as a leading food, wine and travel expert. Mr. Blue is a published author, columnist, TV and radio personality. His award-winning work is circulated to more than 50,000,000 consumers each month.
READ MORE- Barbara Fairchild 2009
Barbara Fairchild is a prominent tastemaker and television and radio personality, event speaker, and food, wine, and travel authority, Barbara Fairchild has been editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit since 2000.
READ MORE- Don Fry 2007
DON FRY, an independent writing coach, helps writers write better, editors edit better, and managers organize better. Don has had two careers, first as an English professor and then in journalism. He headed the writing and ethics faculties at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, and edited the Institute's series Best Newspaper Writing.
READ MORE- Jack Hart 2008
Jack Hart is Editor at Large and Writing Coach at The Oregonian, the Pacific Northwest's largest daily newspaper, where he also has worked as a reporter, arts and leisure editor, Sunday magazine editor, training editor and managing editor. He has additional reporting experience at two other newspapers, holds a University of Wisconsin doctorate in Mass Communications and has taught at five universities.
READ MORE- Bob Hosmon 2008
For 30 years, Bob Hosmon has been writing a weekly wine column, first for the Miami Herald and KRT Wire Service and then for the South Florida Sun Sentinel and McClatchy-Tribune News Service.
READ MORE- Bill LeBlond 2008
Bill LeBlond, Editorial Director of Cookbooks at Chronicle Books, is responsible for the 20 cookbooks Chronicle publishes each year. The first cookbook he edited was James McNair's Cold Pasta, which launched McNair's best-selling and much-imitated cookbook series.
READ MORE- Ted Lee and Matt Lee 2009
Siblings Matt and Ted are the wine columnists for Martha Stewart Living and also write for numerous other publications.
READ MORE- Karen MacNeil 2008
Karen MacNeil is the Chairman of the Center for Professional Wine Studies at the Culinary Institute of America in the Napa Valley.
For the last 25 years, Karen has been a writer and educator whose articles on wine and food have been published in more than 50 U.S. magazines and newspapers including: The New York Times, Food & Wine, Saveur, and Town & Country.
READ MORE- Elin McCoy 2007
ELIN McCOY, a wine writer for Bloomberg, Shattered, and Food & Wine, is author of The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker Jr. and the Reign of American Taste. (Ecco/Harper Collins). Elin met Parker in 1981 when she was his first magazine editor, and she has followed his extraordinary rise ever since. She is fascinated with the written word and with the wine industry as history and as it is active now. She is also interested in just elements of a fine book as the glossary and bibliography.
READ MORE- Elin McCoy 2009
Elin McCoy, a wine writer for Bloomberg, Shattered, and Food & Wine, is author of The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker Jr. and the Reign of American Taste.
READ MORE- Linda Murphy 2008
Linda Murphy, is the West Coast Correspondent for Jancisrobinson.com and Decanter Magazine. Formerly, she was the wine editor of The San Francisco Chronicle, the only newspaper in the United States to publish a weekly, stand-alone wine section. After 13 years as a sportswriter at The San Diego Union, Linda traded a beer and a shot for Sauvignon Blanc, moving to Sonoma County to live among the vines.
READ MORE- Frank Prial 2009
A consummate story teller, Frank Prial wrote for The New York Times for 30 years as a reporter, foreign correspondent and author of the wine column, Wine Talk.
READ MORE- Charles Reidelbach 2007
CHARLES REIDELBACH, JR., a partner and chair of Higgs, Fletcher & Mack's Intellectual Property Group, represents clients in the wine, food and culinary arts industry having a wide spectrum of intellectual property-related legal needs, involving trademarks, trade dress, unfair competition, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, electronic commerce, rights of publicity and entertainment law.
READ MORE- David Rosengarten 2008
David Rosengarten is one of the world's foremost authorities on food, wine and cooking. He is also a travel writer, cookbook author and TV journalist beloved by millions of fans the world over.
READ MORE- Jerry Shriver 2007
JERRY SHRIVER writes about wine, dining, travel and whatever else catches his eye for the Destinations & Diversions section of USA Today, the nation's largest general-circulation newspaper.
READ MORE- Steven Spurrier 2007
STEVEN SPURRIER was educated at Ruby School and the London School of Economics. In 1964 he joined the wine trade as a trainee with Christopher and Co (established 1665). In 1970 he moved to Paris and purchased Les Caves de la Madeleine, a small shop in the centre of the city, and in 1973 opened L'Academie du Vin, the first independent wine school in France. As a partner, he became involved in diverse ventures allied to wine: Le Bistrot a Vin (a winebar/restaurant in the business quarter of La Defense); Le Chemin des Vignes (a warehouse and bottling plant on the outskirts of Paris) and Le Moulin du Village and Le Blue Fox (a restaurant/winebar near the Caves de la Madeleine). Spurrier is perhaps best known for having created the tasting between top Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon wines from California and France in May 1976, subsequently referred to as The Judgement of Paris. A re-creation of this event was held 30 years to the day on May 24th 2006, simultaneously in London and Napa.
READ MORE- Lettie Teague 2008
Lettie Teague is Executive Wine Editor of Food & Wine, a must-read for anyonewith a passionate interest in cooking, wine, travel, restaurants and entertaining.
READ MORE- Alder Yarrow 2008
Since January of 2004, Alder Yarrow has been publishing Vinography.com, where he writes daily about wines, the wine world, and good restaurants around the globe. San Francisco Magazine has called Alder "the wine world's brightest cyberstar," and Vinography is widely acknowledged to be the world's leading wine blog. The site, which Alder began as a way to collect his own personal notes about wine and food, has garnered praise from Food and Wine Magazine, Bon Appetit Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The LA Times, The Washington Post, FastCompany, and 7x7 Design Magazine , among others.