Antonia (Toni) Allegra is a career and writing coach dedicated to working with food and wine professionals. She coaches culinary starters and stars, having influenced the creation of more than 150 books, columns, blogs, etc. She is a wine/food/travel writer and international speaker as well as teacher and poet. She founded the Symposium for Professional … Continued

Talia Baiocchi is the founder and editor in chief of Punch, the author of Sherry, the co-author of Spritz and Pasta, and a food and drink writer who lives, and works, in Brooklyn.

Neil Beckett ascended what he hoped might be an ivory tower via a first class honors degree in English and medieval history (St. Andrews), a doctorate in medieval history (Magdalen College, Oxford) and a prize fellowship of the Royal Historical Society (University of London). Always equally interested in wine, he soon wanted to spend more … Continued

Contributing Editor Virginie Boone has been with Wine Enthusiast since 2010, and reviews and reports on the wines of Napa and Sonoma for the magazine. Sonoma-based Boone began her writing career in 1997 with Lonely Planet travel guidebooks, contributing to titles on South America, Northern California, France and America’s Deep South. Travel assignments led her … Continued

Mike Dunne is a freelance wine writer and consultant who divides his time between Sacramento and San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur. He is a former food editor, wine columnist and restaurant critic of The Sacramento Bee and continues to write a weekly wine column for The Bee. He blogs for the Bee as … Continued

Jordan Mackay is a James-Beard-award winning writer on wine, spirits and food. His work has appeared in Food & Wine, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Decanter, The Art of Eating, Wine and Spirits, and many others. He is he author or co-author of nine books, including the award-winning 2009 books … Continued

Elin McCoy, a writer on wine and spirits for Bloomberg News, Shattered, and Food & Wine, is author of The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker Jr. and the Reign of American Taste. Elin met Parker in 1981 when she was his first magazine editor, and she has followed his extraordinary rise ever since. She is … Continued

Julia Flynn Siler is a prize-winning author and journalist. Her most recent book is  Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure, published by Grove/Atlantic in 2012. Her first book was the New York Times bestseller, The House of Mondavi. She is now at work on her next book, which … Continued

Italian wine is my beat, and the village of Varinella (pop. 252) near Gavi my home when not in Brooklyn. Since 2002, my feature stories and photographs have appeared in Tastes of Italia, an Italian cooking magazine where I’m a contributing writer. Other outlets include Decanter, Wine Enthusiast, and Gastronomica, as well as my blog … Continued

Sue Veseth, contributing editor of The Wine Economist (wineeconomist.com), has more than 35 years of corporate communications experience. She has expertise in communications strategy development and implementation, writing, copy editing, media relations, and project management. She regularly won industry awards for both customer and employee publications and communications projects. Since retiring from the corporate world, … Continued