Wine Writers’ Symposium

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 fascinated with the written word and with the wine industry as history and as it is active now.