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When Allison Bart isn't organizing tasting panels at Wine &
Spirits, she's likely driving up the Hudson in search of great food
and wine. Bart put in a harvest at Soter Vineyards in Oregon
and floor time at Frankly Wines in NYC before arriving at W&S.
She's fascinated by the farm-to-table movement in the Hudson
Valley, and the bottles that run parallel, and highlights some of
her favorite places to check out on page 26.

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August 2018 Vol. 37, No. 4
PUBLISHER AND EDITOR

Joshua Greene

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Tara Q. Thomas
REGIONAL WINE EDITORS

Stephanie Johnson
Patrick J. Comiskey * Patricio Tapia
TASTING DIRECTOR

Sarah Sutel Looper
PRODUCTION EDITOR

Deanna Gonnella
ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Karen Moneymaker

Rachel DelRocco makes a mean French 75-just ask anyone she
ever served at Qui in Austin, where she earned an Eater Young Gun
Award. For this issue, she takes the drink, and a few others incorporating sparkling wine, to another level, experimenting with different
styles of prosecco and presenting the results to a panel of mixologists. She shares her findings on page 22.

TASTING COORDINATORS

Allison Bart * Rachel DelRocco
Erik Siering
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

David Darlington
ART DIRECTOR

Mike Rush
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR

Vivian Ho
DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL MEDIA

Elena Bessarabova-Leone
JUNIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Helena Xu

Joshua Greene has had a soft spot for Spanish wines since
he was 12, when he spent a summer in Galicia. The owner,
editor and publisher of Wine & Spirits since 1989, he takes any
chance he can get to head to Iberia; for this issue, he travelled
to the Canary Islands to delve into the wealth of grape varieties
growing there-and found three producers changing the landscape of Tenerife wines (p. 32).

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

John Anderson * Elaine Chukan Brown * Tyler Colman
Jordan Mackay * Fiona Morrison, MW
David Schildknecht * Erik Tennyson
REGIONAL CORRESPONDENTS

Bill Addison (Atlanta) * Ben Canaider (Australia)
Bill Ward (Midwest) * Alan Tardi (Italy)
C I RC U L AT IO N & M A RKE T I N G
WEBSITE COORDINATOR

Janusz Sikora
CIRCUL ATION CONSULTANT

Charles Squires
DISTRIBUTION

Curtis Circulation Company

Patricio Tapia is a rock star in his native Chile, where he puts out
Descorchados, an annual guide to South American wines. Jancis
Robinson is also one of his fans, tapping him as the South American correspondent for the Oxford Companion to Wine and the World
Atlas of Wine. Tapia is also Wine & Spirits' critic for Spanish wine, and
headed to Ribera del Duero this spring to report on the latest new
faces there (p. 19).

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DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

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photo of Rachel DelRocco by Aaron Zebrook

Tara Q. Thomas worked as a chef in Athens in the early 1990s
and has been smitten with Greek wine and food ever since. In
her 20 years as an editor at W&S, she's made it a point to pack
the August issue with as many great Greek wines as possible-
as she does in this issue's tasting section (p. 59). A Santorini
partisan since long before the island's assyrtiko took off in the
US market, she recently traveled to Greece to search out alternative terroirs for the variety, on Crete and the mainland (p. 28).

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