Scott W. Clemens has spent more than 35 years writing about wine, food, and travel, with more than 500 articles to his credit, and more than 13,000 published wine reviews. He has judged numerous national and international wine and spirits competitions, has been a newspaper wine columnist, an editor of several food, wine and spirits magazines, and was the Editor/Publisher of EPICUREAN magazine. His travels have taken him to 29 countries and all but four states. He writes non-fiction under the byline Scott W. Clemens, and fiction under the moniker of S.W. Clemens (see http://www.swclemens.com).
Lucy Gordan, Epicurean-Traveler.com’s European Bureau Chief, is an award-winning travel writer and cultural journalist living in Rome. She is currently Culture Editor of Inside the Vatican, and a regular contributor to German Life, KMT: a modern journal of ancient Egypt, and La Madia, an Italian eno-gastromonic and travel monthly. She can be reached at lucyrastelli@gmail.com. Her website is www.lucygordan.com.
Until early 2009 the long-time Wine and Spirits Editor of United Airlines’ Hemispheres, Bill Marsano has won a James Beard medal and a handful of other awards for his writing on wine, spirits and travel in Hemispheres, Condé Nast Traveler and “a host,” as they say, other titles. He is that rarest and proudest of birds, the New Yorker native-born, but he travels to Italy whenever he can get away with it and is plotting to when he can’t. He is then accompanied by his Feathercraft folding kayak, which he launches with abandon on the likes of Venice’s Grand Canal, Cognac’s Charente, Tuscany’s Arno and the Ligurian Sea off the Cinque Terre. A colleague has (too) generously called him “one of the wine scene’s most insightful observers” but he himself admits only to being “a crank with some bizarre opinions and a weakness for word-play” (e.g., “Men seldom makes passes at girls without glassware.”)
Bill’s blog can be found at: PouredWithPleasure.Com. Contact: billmarsano@rcn.com
As a freelance writer, Susanna Gaertner has written about everything from medicine to massage, from art to wine travel for magazines as diverse as Smithsonian, New York Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, New Woman (Australia), the Sydney Morning Herald, Art & Auction, the Express Times, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
As a wine travel writer for Epicurean Traveler, Susanna has written about venues in Germany, Switzerland, Australia, and Chile. Susanna would like to extend special thanks to her mentors, the teaching staff of the wine program at the CIA in St. Helena.
Earlier in her career, Susanna was an advertising executive at GEO and Architectural Digest as well as Associate Publisher of nest magazine.
She has also become a popular Pilates instructor. (www.pilates4all.com)
Patricia Guy, who lives in Verona, Italy, is a journalist and award-winning author of books about wine, and a few about Sherlock Holmes as well. She has worked in New York, London, Paris, Champagne, Bordeaux and the South of France, in the roles of fine wine broker, wine buyer, vendangeuse, sommelier and tasting tutor. While in London she studied blind tasting for three years and passed the WSET professional exams. She writes about wine, books, and Italian culture.