The Wine Writers’ Symposium

Patrick Comiskey is a senior contributor for Wine & Spirits magazine, where he serves as chief critic for all domestic wines not from California, and regularly contributes articles devoted to California, Oregon and Washington wine, wine growing and wine culture. He has traveled extensively throught the U.S. wine regions as well as France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand and Australia, and tastes more than 4,000 wines a year. Comiskey has been a columnist with Wine Review Online, and is also a regular contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle‘s wine section, and appears regularly in Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, and the Robb Report. He lives in Los Angeles.