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august 2009 / the tasting panel / August 2009 / Volume 67 / No. 8 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 Amy K. Fellows, Elaine Chen-Fernan- dez, Clare Demarest, Bill Diehl, Jenn Farrington, Richard Carleton Hacker, Daedalus Howell, jimmey leblanc, Ryan Lely, David Mahoney, Heather Man- ning, Richard Manning, Jr., Amanda McCorquodale, Jeffrey Miller, Ben Narasin, Lisa Poseley, Matt Powers, Marguerite Richards, Aurora Rodríguez, Danny Ronen, Steven Spurrier, Cathy Twigg-Blumel, Naren Young 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 offices 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 CORRECTIONS In our July issue, two Washington, D.C. bartenders were misidentified: The website address for the WSET (Wine and Spirits Education Trust) was incorrectly listed in our June issue. The correct URL is www.wsetglobal.com. The Managing Editor would like to apologize for the several conspicuous typos in the July issue, especially those affecting Anthony Dias Blue's Letter from the Editor. Boy, is my face red. But we were gratified to see that, in spite of the errors, the letter brought an unprecedented number of responses, which we will be addressing in an upcoming issue. For a corrected version, see www.tastingpanelmag.com. —David Gadd Clare Demarest is a writer and editor and a partner at www.wordsandcompany.com. She lives with her husband on Spinnaker Island in Boston Harbor. 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, is a lifetime member of the Keeper of the Quaich and the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne and was knighted in Germany. Amanda McCorquodale is a contributing editor and freelancer for a variety of food and beverage publica- tions, including Gourmet and Wine News. Based in Mi- ami and having recently lived in New York, London and Vancouver, she can't help but also write about travel and culture. Visit www.AmandaMcCorquodale.com. Ben Narasin is a San Francisco Bay Area 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. In this issue, he reports on the wines of Madeira. Marguerite Richards manages FranceGuide maga- zines for the French Government Tourist Office. Once she's done grumbling for the day about her love/hate relationship with the French, you can find her moon- lighting as a freelance writer and amateur photogra- pher for food, wine and spirits. Aurora Rodríguez is The Miami Herald's cocktail columnist and assistant editor of the newspaper's entertainment website, Miami.com. She has worked for newspapers such as The San Juan Star in her native Puerto Rico and The New York Times Regional Group newspaper, The Ledger, as a features writer. Aurora currently resides in Miami with her husband, Sebastian Dominguez, where there's never a shortage of excite- ment or a good Martini. Owen Thomsen of Bourbon. Adam Bernbach of Proof.