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W. Blake Gray is author of “California Winetopia,” a Japanese-language guide to California wines. He was previously a staff wine writer/editor for the San Francisco...
Liz Willette got bitten by the wine bug while living in Beaune, France. At the time she was working for Butterfield & Robinson, a high-end active travel company...
Richard Leahy has been writing about wine for consumers and producers since 1986. He was a regional editor for Kevin Zraly’s American Wine Guide, and was...
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Sondra Barrett, PhD fell in love with food early on when she starting reading cook books as a young girl. She hasn’t stopped since. She earned a PhD in biochemistry...
Jon Thorsen is the founder of the popular blog The Reverse Wine Snob: Thumbing My Nose At Bottles Over $20!. The idea behind the blog...
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Author Archives: Richard Leahy
About Richard Leahy
Richard Leahy has been writing about wine for consumers and producers since 1986. He was a regional editor for Kevin Zraly’s American Wine Guide, and was Mid-Atlantic and Southern Editor for the Oxford Companion to the Wines of North America. He was East Coast Editor of Vineyard & Winery Management for ten years and coordinates the seminar program for the Eastern Winery Exposition. He is a member of the Society of Wine Educators, the Circle of Wine Writers and the board of Drink Local Wine.com. Mr. Leahy is author of Beyond Jefferson’s Vines, on the evolution of quality wine in Virginia, to be published by Sterling Epicure Press in spring 2012. He has a website and blog focused on wines of the East at www.richardleahy.com.
The Components of Wine Quality
The distinction between subjective personal taste preferences (largely accidental), and objective wine “quality” is an age-old puzzle. Just to show that this is an eternal question, I encourage you to visit “Drink what YOU Like”, a blog post by Virginia-based … Continue reading
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The Relationship Between Wine and Quality
You may have wondered at some point, who gets to be the ones to say which wines are good, great or lousy? Are they just imposing their tastes on everyone else and assuming that’s the same as quality? Since people’s … Continue reading
