Joshua Greene
Editor and Publisher of Wine & Spirits magazine since 1986, Joshua Greene first began drinking wine with meals during a summer in Galicia, Spain at age 13. Later, he worked in wine shops in western Massachusetts and spent a summer as the wine captain for Wheatleigh, a small inn in Lenox. After graduating from Princeton University in 1981, Greene pursued a career in magazines, starting in management of special-interest publications. His involvement with Wine & Spirits began on a consulting basis, and eventually led to his purchase of the magazine in 1989.
Greene has traveled extensively through the wine regions of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Australia and Chile, as well as all the major regions of the United States. At Wine & Spirits, in addition to his duties as editor and publisher, Greene serves as the critic for California wines, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Northern Italy, Portugal, Rioja, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. He also contributes feature stories and commentary in each issue of the magazine.
Tara Q. Thomas
Since Tara Q. Thomas joined Wine & Spirits in 1997, she's traveled the wine world from Argentina to Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Israel and Italy as well as North America's major wine regions. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York with more than 20 years of experience in the food and wine world, she puts her culinary knowledge to use as the magazine's resident food maven, editor of the Cityscene section and author of many food-and-wine pieces. She's also the wine critic for the wines of the Mediterranean—with a particular focus on Greece, where she's lived and cooked—and Eastern Europe. In her spare time, she teaches wine classes, writes about wine for the Denver Post and has authored two books, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wine Basics and The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Wine.
Patrick Comiskey
Patrick Comiskey, a former sommelier, serves as W&S critic for all domestic wines from outside of California, and regularly contributes articles on California, Oregon and Washington wine and winegrowing. He has traveled extensively throughout the US wine regions, as well as France, Italy, Germany and Australia. He has taught classes and moderated panels on viticulture, wine tasting and the world's wine regions, and has written educational materials for restaurants as well as internet websites. In addition, Comiskey has contributed to the San Francisco Chronicle's wine section, the Los Angeles Times, Bon Appetit and the Robb Report. He lives in Los Angeles.
Patricio Tapia
After graduating with a degree in journalism from the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Patricio Tapia went to Bordeaux University in France for a diploma on wine tasting and winemaking. Since then, he has written several books, including his annual Descorchados, a Chilean wine guide; The Wines of Colchagua Valley; TodoVino; and Wines for Great Occasions. He is also the South American correspondent for The Oxford Companion To Wine, The World Atlas of Wine and Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Book. For the past three years, he's hosted the El Gourmet channel in South America, visiting wine regions around the world. At Wine & Spirits, where he has worked for eight years, he specializes in the wines of Argentina, Chile and Spain.
Peter Liem
Peter Liem's interest in wine developed while backpacking in Europe as a teenager. He has spent nearly ten years as a wine professional, first as a retailer in San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, then working in wholesale and importing. Liem was also the co-publisher and tasting director for the Riesling Report, an online magazine devoted to riesling and riesling producers around the world. Most recently he was a part-owner of Vigne wine bar in Portland, Oregon, before joining Wine & Spirits in 2004. Liem, who splits his time between Champagne and New York City, reviews wines from the Loire, Alsace, Germany and Austria.
Wolfgang Weber
Wolfgang Weber began his wine career on a backpacking trip, when he stopped to pick sangiovese grapes during the 1997 harvest in Chianti Classico. Since then, he has worked almost exclusively in the wine trade, stocking shelves and selling bottles at retail shops, working for boutique wine importers, serving wine at high-end wine bars and writing winery newsletters and websites. He has also spent two vintages as a cellar rat at Green & Red Vineyard in the mountains above St. Helena in the Napa Valley. A California native, he is currently Senior Editor at Wine & Spirits and critic for the wines of Italy. He lives in San Francisco.