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{ SOMMjournal.com } 3 FOLLOW US! @SommJ • facebook.com/SommelierJournal • instagram.com/SommJournal Published six times per year ISSN 1944-074X USPS 02488i The SOMM Journal is published bi-monthly for $52 per year by The SOMM Journal, The Sommelier Journal, 17203 Ventura Blvd. Suite 5, Encino, CA 91316. Periodicals postage at Van Nuys, CA and additional mailing offices. Subscription rate: $52 One Year ; $100 Two Years. Single Copy; $10 For all subscriptions, email: subscriptions@sommjournal.com POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The SOMM Journal 17203 Ventura Blvd.; Ste 5 Encino, CA 91316 818-990-0350 SENIOR ART DIRECTOR Michael Viggiano SENIOR EDITOR Karen Moneymaker WINE EDITOR Jessie Birschbach EAST COAST EDITOR Lana Bortolot EDITOR-AT-LARGE Randy Caparoso LONDON CORRESPONDENT Steven Spurrier TEXAS EDITOR Anthony Head ASSOCIATE EDITOR Emily Coleman ASSOCIATE EDITOR Becky Tsadik SENIOR INDUSTRY EDITOR Deborah Parker Wong VP/SALES & MARKETING Bill Brandel 818-784-2122 bill@sommjournal.com ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Rachel Burkons rburkons@tastingpanelmag.com 818-990-0350 VP/FINANCE DIRECTOR Anna Russell 818-784-2122 anna@tastingpanelmag.com SOMM JOURNAL February/March 2016 Vol. 3 No. 1 ©2015 The SOMM Journal, The Sommelier Journal. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. Sommelier Journal USPS 024881, ISSN 1944-074X BEHIND THE SCENES CONTRIBUTORS Michelle Ball, Bob Bath MS, Deirdre Bourdet, David Michael Cane, Rachel Cane, Leigh Castelli, Andrew Chalk, Jonathan Cristaldi, John Curley, Dustin Downing, Elyse Glickman, Richard Carleton Hacker, Paul Hodgins, Jesse Hom-Dawson, Celeste Hope, Timothy Murray, Jennifer Olson, David Ransom, George Rose, Alexander Rubin, Celia Soudry, Ryan Stone, Evan Sung, Ruth Tobias, Cindy Vogels, David Vogels, Kirk Weddle CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Bob Bath MS, Tom Caestecker Jr., Christie Dufault, Catherine Fallis MS, Richard Carleton Hacker, Karen MacNeil, Kelly Magyarics, Roger Morris, Chris Sawyer, Amy Zavatto At a tasting session at Failla Wines in St. Helena, Beverage Director Paul Einbund samples lots of Zinfandel for his New Level House Wine program at Octavia restau- rant in San Francisco. Left to right: Cat Fairchild, National Sales for Failla; The SOMM Journal's Senior Industry Editor, Deborah Parker Wong; Paul Einbund; Failla's Erhen Jordan and his assistant winemaker, Savanna Wright. See the story on pp. 106—107. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Anthony Dias Blue VP/EXECUTIVE EDITOR David Gadd dgadd@sommjournal.com PUBLISHER / EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Meridith May mmay@sommjournal.com