Oscar Quevedo was born in 1983 in the village of S. João da Pesqueira, Douro and studied in S. João da Pesqueira and Porto, where he got a degree in economics. Then he worked as a banker in Lisbon, Geneva-read more-
After receiving his Ph.D. in Italian literature from UCLA in 1997, Jeremy Parzen moved to New York City where he began writing about Italian wine for La Cucina Italiana. In 2008, he moved to Austin, Texas, where he lives with his wife Tracie-read more-
Amy Cleary is the food and wine publicist for the University of California Press. She also publishes a blog, winebookgirl.
Nancy Citro is on staff at The Wine Shop in downtown Healdsburg and has lived in the beautiful Russian River Valley for nearly three decades. She farms a small zinfandel vineyard & has enjoyed fly fishing Northern California Rivers &-read more-
Fredric Koeppel is a Palate Press Contributing Editor. Fredric wrote a weekly nationally distributed wine column from 1984 to 2004. He ran the now defunct website KoeppelOnWine until it became too complicated and in December 2006 launched the blog biggerthanyourhead.net.-read more-
Paul has been applying 30 years of high tech sales & marketing expertise to the business of wine retail for the past 3 years. In his other life he is a consultant to companies needing to improve their sales, marketing-read more-
Adam A. Caperton is a culinary, wine, and travel consultant and writer. He has been affiliated with The Viking Range Corporation and The Culinary Institute of America on their Viking Life / Worlds of Flavor travel program. A former chef,-read more-
Gary Thomas is a 35-year veteran of journalism, spending much of his time having served as a foreign correspondent in places like Islamabad, Kabul, Phnom Penh, and Bangkok. He recently retired from his position as a senior correspondent/news analyst at Voice-read more-