About the Author

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Sophie Menin is an award-winning cultural journalist and author whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Barron's, Punch, Departures, Wine Spectator, The Daily Beast, Edible Communities and Opera News, among other publications. Her wine writing can be found in the online journal LifewithWine.com. Bob Chaplin is an artist, landscape designer and wine writer working with mixed media, installation, video, and limited-edition books. His work explores cultural perceptions of the land, nature and wilderness and our contemporary interactions with landscape. His artwork and limited-edition books are in the collections of the Tate Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, The Museum of Modern Art Library, Whitney Museum of American Art Library, Art Institute of Chicago, Yale Center For British Art, Getty Research Institute Library, British Council and the Stedlijk Museum. He has written about libations for The Hartford Courant, Gastronomica, Hartford Magazine and the New England Wine Gazette.