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october 2009 / the tasting panel / October 2009 / Volume 67 / No. 10 Selected Contributors 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 Lana Bortolot, Marten Czamanske, Zack Dickson, Lynne Eppel, Becky Sue Epstein, Amy K. Fellows, Elaine Chen-Fernandez, Anthony Head, Daedalus Howell, Jimmey LeBlanc, Ryan Lely, Kelly A. Magyarics, Amy Reiley, Marguerite Richards, Aurora Rodríguez, Christopher Sawyer, Steven Spurrier, Stacey Taxin, Eric Tecosky, Wilfred Wong Your National Connection For Beverage Trends Established 1941 www.tastingpanelmag.com 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 Texas Editor Anthony Head Rocky Mountain Editor Stacey Brugeman Photo Editor Cathy Twigg-Blumel Contributing Editors Tony Abou-Ganim, Becky Sue Epstein, Richard Carleton Hacker, Rudy Maxa, F. Paul Pacult, Merrill Shindler Zack Dickson's love for great food and wine was instilled at a very young age when he would spend summers working at his godparent's Napa Valley winery. Zack went on to study sociology and journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. His passion for travel, writing and experiencing different cultures has taken Zack to many of the renowned wine regions of Australia, Italy and France. Amy K. Fellows's love of exploring the globe and recording different cultures began as a teenager. As a parting gift, her grandfather passed down an old Pen- tax; that camera fostered her love for photojournalism. "I'm home in San Diego about six days a month and on the road the rest of the time. I'm truly living my dream!" 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. Anthony Head has more than twenty years of profes- sional writing experience under his hat. He travels the world for assignments, but makes his home in the Texas Hill Country. You can read more of his stuff at www. anthonyheadworks.com. Daedalus Howell was recently dubbed "Lifestyle Ambassador" for Sonoma County, where he creates award-winning editorial content and online branded entertainment. He blogs at DHowell.com and founded the free social network SonomaWinos.com. Ryan Lely launched his photographic career in Santa Cruz and then returned to Sonoma Valley to document the lifestyle of the winemaker and the wine drinker. His work can be seen weekly in North Bay magazines and newspapers and on his website rlely.com. Kelly A. Magyarics is a wine and spirits writer and wine educator in the Washington, D.C. area. She can be reached through her website, www.trywine.net. Amy Reiley is a freelance food and wine journalist and Editorial Director of EatSomethingSexy.com, as well as the author of Fork Me, Spoon Me: the sensual cookbook. In June 2005, Reiley was singled out as one of the five best female wine professionals in the world of the year by France's Wine Women Awards . Christopher Sawyer, "Sommelier to the Stars," is a world-renowned sommelier, journalist, wine educator and international wine judge who travels the globe fol- lowing trends in wine and shares these tasty experi- ences on his website, WineRadius.com. Sawyer is also notably the world's only Film Festival Sommelier, pair- ing wine selections with some of the world's top indy films each year for the Sonoma Valley Film Festival. Stacey Taxin has been taking memorable photographs for more than ten years. A freelance photographer cur- rently residing in Southern California, her creative eye and fine art background have led to amazing images on all her projects. Her work can be viewed at www. staceytaxin.com. 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