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{ SOMMjournal.com } 3 FOLLOW US! @SommJ • facebook.com/SommelierJournal • instagram.com/SommJournal Published six times per year ISSN 1944-074X USPS 02488i The SOMM Journal is published bi-monthly for $52 per year by The SOMM Journal, The Sommelier Journal, 17203 Ventura Blvd. Suite 5, Encino, CA 91316. Periodicals postage at Van Nuys, CA and additional mailing offices. Subscription rate: $52 One Year ; $100 Two Years. Single Copy; $10 For all subscriptions, email: subscriptions@sommjournal.com POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The SOMM Journal 17203 Ventura Blvd.; Ste 5 Encino, CA 91316, 818-990-0350 PUBLISHER / EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Meridith May mmay@sommjournal.com EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Anthony Dias Blue VP/MANAGING EDITOR David Gadd dgadd@sommjournal.com SENIOR ART DIRECTOR Michael Viggiano SENIOR EDITOR Karen Moneymaker DEPUTY EDITOR Jonathan Cristaldi SPIRITS EDITOR /MARKETING MANAGER Rachel Burkons EAST COAST EDITOR Lana Bortolot SENIOR INDUSTRY EDITOR Deborah Parker Wong EDITOR-AT-LARGE Randy Caparoso LONDON CORRESPONDENT Steven Spurrier TEXAS EDITOR Anthony Head ASSOCIATE EDITOR Emily Coleman ASSOCIATE EDITOR Brian Kustera VP/SALES & MARKETING Bill Brandel 818-784-2122 bill@sommjournal.com VP/FINANCE DIRECTOR Anna Russell 818-784-2122 anna@tastingpanelmag.com DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE EVENTS Nicolette Teo SOMM JOURNAL APRIL/MAY • 2015 Vol. 2 No. 2 ©2015 The SOMM Journal, The Sommelier Journal. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. Sommelier Journal USPS 024881, ISSN 1944-074X CONTRIBUTORS Jeremy Ball, Tricia Carr, Dustin Downing, Traci Dutton, Kathryn Hayes, Roy Hersh, Paul Hodgins, Jaime C. Lewis, Maximilian Kast, Christopher Miller MS, Marnie Old, Stephanie Secrest, Kyle Schlachter, Fred Swan, Jason Tesauro, Lee P. Thomas, Jouko van der Kruijssen, Dan Vogel, Tubay Yabut, D oug Young CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Bob Bath MS, Tom Caestecker Jr., Catherine Fallis MS, Ted Glennon, Richard Carleton Hacker, Karen MacNeil, Kelly Magyarics, Chris Sawyer, Merrill Shindler, Amy Zavatto CORRECTION In our February-March issue, we mistakenly identified Michele Fano as the Wine Director at La Toque. Michele serves as Sommelier at La Toque; the restaurant's Wine Director is Richard Matuszczak. Also, La Toque is in Napa, not Yountville. BEHIND THE SCENES We love photographer Stephanie Secrest's shot of Master Sommelier Alan Murray in the wine room at Mourad in San Francisco. Turn to page 98 to see the full story on Bay Area beverage trendsetters.