He currently contributes regularly to Decanter Premium.com and TerroirSense.com, a Shanghai-based website. His writing has also appeared in Decanter, The San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Magazine, and The Tasting Panel Magazine. He received a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award in 2000 and was nominated again in 2004 and 2006. In 2008, he won the Les Grands Jours de Bourgogne Press Trophy for an article about Pouilly-Fuissé. In 2010, he was nominated for the prestigious Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards in the best drinks journalist category.

Dr. Apstein judges frequently at international wine competitions, including the Critics Challenge Wine Competition (San Diego), Concours Mondial de Bruxelles (Croatia, Beijing, France, and Portugal), and Decanter World Wine Awards (London). He was the Chief Judge at the Challenge Millésime Bio (The Organic Wine Competition) held in Montpellier, France. Dr. Apstein is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Division of Gastroenterology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He lectures and writes frequently about wine and health.

He is also a freelance contributor to several international wine magazines, instructor for Capital Wine School, and consultant for 12 restaurants in the Washington, D.C. area with combined annual wine sales of $12 million. He wrote as wine columnist for The Washington Post for 11 years before leaving to help found WRO, which he has edited since its launch in 2005.

Franz is Chief Judge for two major wine competitions and has judged competitions on six continents. He has conducted more than 1,650 site visits and tastings at wineries around the world, served as an expert witness in several cases in Federal District Court, and has been interviewed dozens of times on public radio and by worldwide news broadcasts such as the BBC.

She is also president of the Institute of Masters of Wine (North America) and wine columnist for The New York Daily News and the trade magazines Nation’s Restaurant News and Beverage Dynamics.

As a writer, Rebecca has contributed a weekly feature to The Dallas Morning News for many years, and has written for Wine Business Monthly and Wines & Vines in addition to furnishing entries for The Oxford Companion to Wine and the sixth edition of The World Atlas of Wine.

Though his writing is mainly focused on domestic wines, Rich has traveled extensively in Italy and visited multiple producers in Argentina, Mexico, Portugal and South Africa. He judges at several major wine competitions and was a panelist with The California Grapevine, at the time the longest continuously published wine newsletter in the U.S. He also serves as a contributor and co-editor of SpiritsReviewOnline.com.

Wayne has taught wine appreciation classes for over 25 years. He is a frequent judge at national and international wine competitions, as well as a featured speaker at food and wine festivals.

Jessica has written for Imbibe, the Guild of Sommeliers, SevenFifty Daily, Wine Enthusiast, Southern Living, and National Geographic Traveler. She is a Certified Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers and is a Diploma candidate for the Wine and Spirits Educational Trust. Jessica covers food trends for various publications, and has authored six cookbooks. Her latest book, The Wines of Southwest U.S.A., a volume in the Classic Wine Library, covers the emerging wine regions in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado.

Panos writes for Decanter, The World of Fine Wine and Somm Journal, among other wine publications. Panos is invited regularly to judge at professional tastings and enjoys organizing wine dinners in Europe and in the U.S. Although his primary focus is French wine, he enjoys tasting in wine regions around the world. He also has been employed as a sommelier and is working on his WSET diploma.

He has been wine columnist for The New York Observer, Boston magazine, and The American Lawyer magazine.

His wine writing has appeared in New York magazine, Food & Wine, Texas Monthly, and Fortune, among others. John received his Ph.D in American Studies from Yale and taught American Studies and English at Yale, Penn State and Swarthmore. He is the author of three well-received non-fiction books.

Living part-time in Bordeaux for a decade, he explored and wrote about the wines of Bordeaux, Bergerac, Alsace, the Rhône, and the Languedoc. Additional wine experiences include being wine educator and Dean at the San Francisco Culinary Academy, co-author of The Connoisseurs’ Handbook of California Wine, and Auction Director for Winesong in Mendocino. He now blogs and contributes to Vinosity.

The West Virginia native and Delaware resident has been a fulltime wine, travel and culture freelancer since 1999 and has written regularly for print and online publications from Saveur to Robb Report, Wine Enthusiast to Wine & Spirits, Meininger’s to the Daily Meal. He currently is a regular contributor to World of Fine Wines, Drinks Business, SevenFifty Daily, and the AWS Journal.

Her passion for wine has inspired travels spanning six continents, including vineyards in Italy, Portugal, France, Chile, Mexico, Bulgaria, Croatia, New Zealand, and South Africa. When she’s not exploring new wines, Pam conducts public policy research for the biopharmaceutical industry and holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Economics and a Master of Public Policy.