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december 2009 / the tasting panel / December 2009 / Volume 67 / No. 12 Selected Contributors Publisher/Executive Editor Meridith May mmay@tastingpanelmag.com 818-990-0350 Operations Manager Cecilia Loschin closchin@tastingpanelmag.com Associate Editor Rachel Burkons rburkons@tastingpanelmag.com Marketing & Events Director Allison Levine alevine@tastingpanelmag.com Marketing & Editorial Coordinator Nicolette Teo Sales Account Manager Tiffany Gardner t.gardner@husonusa.com 408-879-6666 Contributors Jenny Adams, Lana Bortolot, Rob Brown, Natalie Bovis-Nelsen, Rob Brown, Ian Buxton, Camper English, Anthony Head, Daedalus Howell, Myles Mellor, Nick Passmore, Ryan Lely, Deborah Parker Wong, Chris Sawyer, Steven Spurrier, Nathan Tanner, Eric Tecosky, Tim Teichgraeber, Cathy Twigg-Blumel, Magnus Waern, Amy Zavatto Your National Connection For Beverage Trends Established 1941 www.tastingpanelmag.com Visit our new, revised website! 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Paul Pacult, Merrill Shindler Lana Bortolot is a New York City–based writer and photographer whose work has appeared in the Inter- national Herald Tribune, amNewYork, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun, as well as in City Secrets and Rizzoli cultural travel guidebooks and elemente magazine. She writes frequently on culture, travel, lifestyle and preservation. Ian Buxton works in Scotland as whisky consultant, writer and organiser of the World Whiskies Confer- ence. He is a Keeper of the Quaich and owns his own distillery (sadly derelict and abandoned). 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. Nick Passmore lives in New York City where he opines on food, wine, whisky and other aspects of the good life. His work has appeared in Forbes, Sky, Forbes.com, Departures, Portfolio.com, Businessweek.com, Town & Country, Elite Traveler and Robb Report, among others. More on Nick and his writing can be found at www. NickOnWine.com. Marguerite Richards manages FranceGuide maga- zines for the France Tourism Development Agency, and she's furtively creeping these print rags online. Once she's done grumbling for the day about the French, you can find her moonlighting as a freelance writer for food, wine and spirits. 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. Tim Teichgraeber is a music attorney and freelance wine writer who lives in San Francisco and contributes regularly to both the San Francisco Chronicle and Min- neapolis Star Tribune food and wine sections. Tim trav- els frequently throughout the U.S., Europe and South America to track the latest trends in food and drink. Magnus Waern has worked in the Swedish spirits in- dustry and has been a freelance wine and spirits writer since 1982, contributing to Allt om Mat, Allt om Vin and Vin & Barjournalen, among other publications. He lives in Stockholm. Amy Zavatto writes about wine, spirits and food for Imbibe, Gotham, Every Day with Rachael Ray and many others. She is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bartending and the co-author, with Tony DiDio, of The Renaissance Guide to Wine and Food Pairing. 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