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August 02, 2006 - San Francisco, Calif—Appellation America , the Online Wine Portal and information site, is pleased to announce the addition of four new Regional Correspondents to it’s editorial staff. The addition of the new correspondents keeps Appellation America on the path toward meeting its goal of providing comprehensive coverage of the entire North American wine industry. The new regional correspondents will be reporting from Michigan, North Carolina, Kentucky and New England.
Among the new editorial appointments at Appellation America are Brigid Carroll who will cover New England
Barbara Ensrud covering North Carolina , Ray & Elenaor Heald in Michigan , and Tricia Houston who will cover Kentucky .
30 YEAR WINE WRITING VETERANS ENSRUD AND HEALDS JOINS APPELLATION AMERICA STAFF
Barbara Ensrud has been a prominent member of the American wine writing community since 1978. A regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal for twenty years, she wrote a nationally syndicated column for the New York Daily News for twelve years. She has authored four books about wine, and her feature articles on wine have appeared in Vogue, Parade Magazine, Decanter, GQ, Food & Wine, SAVEUR, The Wine Spectator, House & Garden and numerous other publications. Ensrud is regularly invited to judge at all the major wine competitions across the United States. She is also a wine educator who currently teaches in the short course program at Duke University. A resident of North Carolina since 1999, Barbara has judged at the North Carolina State Fair Wine Competition as well as addressed the state’s association of wineries and grape growers.
“North Carolina is one of the country’s most dynamic emerging wine regions, with a quickly growing number of wineries and an array of very good wines,” notes Ensrud. “America’s wine lovers really need to know about this state’s wines and I’m looking forward to helping tell its story.”
Ray and Eleanor Heald began writing about wine as a team in the 1970s. For the past 15 years they have written for Michigan consumers via their weekly column syndicated by Gannett. In addition, they are regular contributors to both Quarterly Review of Wines and Practical Winery and Vineyard. They have been regular judges at wine competitions across the United States, including the Michigan Wine & Spirits Competition since 1980.
KENTUCKY AND NEW ENGLAND WINE COVERAGE AT APPELLATION AMERICA
Brigid Carroll’s dedication to wine, winemaking and viticulture has taken her from Harvard University to California and back to New Hampshire where today she serves as vineyard manager and assistant winemaker. Brigid earned a graduate certificate in publishing and communications from Harvard University as well as a Wine and Spirit Education Trust Certificate. When not traveling to the world’s wine regions she continues to work in the New Hampshire wine industry and writes for a number of publications.
Tricia Houston keeps a keen eye trained on the Kentucky wine industry as the President of the Northern Kentucky Vintners and Grape Growers Association. As well as being one of the leading advocates for the Kentucky wine industry, she is also a grape grower and winemaker herself at her recently established Cat’s Meow Vineyard & Winery. Tricia will cover the growing and highly diverse Kentucky winemaking scene for Appellation America through interviews and articles on the unique and high quality wines now being produced in the commonwealth.
COMPREHENSIVER WINE COVERAGE OF ALL NORTH AMERICAN WINE REGIONS
Appellation America is a wine information portal that offers more than 5,000 pages of information on the nation’s unique wine growing regions, the varietals that are grown in them and the people who make wine from coast to coast. Appellation America’s wine reviews, e-commerce store, features from correspondents across the country and database of information make it the most comprehensive source of information on North American wine anywhere.
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