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june 2009 / the tasting panel / 3 June 2009 / Volume 67 / No. 6 Selected Contributors Editor-in-Chief Anthony Dias Blue ablue@tastingpanelmag.com Managing Editor David Gadd dgadd@tastingpanelmag.com Senior Art Director James McManus mcmanusdesign@gmail.com East Coast Editor Lana Bortolot, lanab@me.com Northern California Editor, Deborah Parker Wong Midwest Editor, Sean Ludford Texas Editor, Anthony Head Editorial Intern: Stephen Roesler Contributing Editors Tony Abou-Ganim, Becky Sue Epstein, Richard Carleton Hacker, Rudy Maxa, F. Paul Pacult, Merrill Shindler Publisher/Executive Editor Meridith May mmay@tastingpanelmag.com 818-990-0350 Operations Manager Cecilia Loschin closchin@tastingpanelmag.com Editorial/Publishing Coordinator Rachel Burkons rburkons@tastingpanelmag.com Marketing & Events Director Allison Levine alevine@tastingpanelmag.com Sales Account Manager Tiffany Gardner t.gardner@husonusa.com 408-879-6666 Contributors Jenny Adams, Stacey Brugeman, Zack Dickson, Elaine Chen-Fernandez, Richard Carleton Hacker, Sarah Jaquay, Jimmey LeBlanc, Fred Minnick, Ben Narasin, Marguerite Richards, Ben Sasso, Riccardo Savi, Steven Spurrier, Stacey Taxin, Eric Tecosky, Cathy Twigg-Blumel Your National Connection For Beverage Trends Established 1941 www.tastingpanelmag.com Published monthly by Tasting Panel LLC ISSN# 0895-3872 USPS 476-430 Chairman/CEO: Anthony Dias Blue President/COO: Meridith May Vice President: David Gadd Subscription Rate: $36 One Year; $60 Two Years Single Copy: $3.95 For all subscriptions, email: subscriptions@tastingpanelmag.com Periodicals Postage Paid at Van Nuys and at additional mailing offi ces Devoted to the interests and welfare of United States restaurant and retail store licensees, wholesalers, importers and manufacturers in the beverage industry. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Tasting Panel Magazine 15335 Morrison Street, Suite 345, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 818-990-0350 ©2009 The Tasting Panel magazine. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. www.tastingpanelmag.com Jenny Adams is a contributing editor and freelancer full-time for a number of publications including Execu- tive Traveler, Delta magazine and the Southern Bever- age Journals. Jenny is also the Edibles & Elixirs Editor of Portico and contributes a monthly bar column to the Miami Herald. Her fi rst book, Mixing New Orleans: Cocktails & Legends was published in July of 2007. For more information, visit www.jennyadamsfreelance.com. Stacey Brugeman is a Denver-based food, wine, beer and spirits writer. She holds an Intermediate Certifi - cate in Wine from the International Wine Center and has swirled, sniffed and sipped her way through more than 35 countries. Her work has appeared in Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, Saveur, The Denver Post, Denver Magazine and other publications. Richard Carleton Hacker is an internationally recognized authority on wines, spirits, cigars, and related luxury lifestyles, and is a contributing writer for magazines that include Robb Report, Playboy, Smoke and The Quarterly Review of Wines. He has authored eleven books in the U.S., Great Britain and Germany, is a lifetime member of the Keeper of the Quaich and the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne and was knighted in Germany. Sarah Jaquay is a freelancer from Cleveland, Ohio. She focuses on wine, food and travel and revels in the history of everything. She writes for TheWineBuzz, Cur- rents and Reunions Magazine and has contributed to National Geographic Traveler and Lake Erie Living. Fred Minnick is a professional writer and photographer based in Louisville, KY. He has covered the Iraq War, sports and general news. Minnick has contributed to MSN, Investor's Business Daily, Bankrate.com and several restaurant trade publications. View his work at FredWrite.com. Ben Narasin is a freelance writer focused on wine, food and the sybaritic lifestyle. His travels have recently taken him to Spain's Andalucía and to the Italian island of Pantelleria. Marguerite Richards is a freelance writer, editor, translator, teacher and world traveler who has lived extensively in France and Chile. Working in food and beverage has not only paid her airline tickets, but has surreptitiously fostered her love for food, wine and spirits writing. Eric Tecosky (ET) is the Bar Manager of Jones Hol- lywood in Los Angeles and the owner of Dirty Sue premium olive juice (www.dirtysue.com) and The Seat Saver – The Better Coaster (www.theseatsaver.com). Deborah Parker Wong, AIWS, our Northern California editor, just passed the WSET fi nal exam; see her story on the study process on page 72 of this issue. Deborah has worked in the food and beverage industry for more than 16 years and will continue to report for THE TASTING PANEL from her base in San Francisco. Congratulations, Deb!