SELECTED CONTRIBUTORS
KELLY MERRITT, THE TAST- ING PANEL'S new Florida Editor, is the author of The Everything Family Guide to Budget Travel and a culinary travel journalist with more than 1,000 stories to her credit. When she isn't writing, Kelly can be found plying the waters of the Florida Everglades and The Ten Thousand Islands with her husband, fishing guide and outdoor writer Captain Kevin Merritt.
LAURA SANCHEZ first tasted terroir while working as a sous chef on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Today she edits and writes for a variety of trade and consumer publications. Wine simultaneously quenches her thirst and inspires her wanderlust. She can be con- tacted at Laura@Nectar-Media.com.
CHRISTOPHER SAWYER, "Som- melier to the Stars," is a world-re- nowned sommelier, journalist, wine educator and international wine judge who travels the globe follow- ing trends in wine and shares these tasty experiences in print. Sawyer is also notably the world's only Film Festival Sommelier, pairing wine selections with some of the world's top indie films each year for the Sonoma Valley Film Festival.
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miami editor Kelly Merritt
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Tony Abou-Ganim, Bridget Albert, Ian Buxton, Becky Sue Epstein, Richard Carleton Hacker,
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