Award-winning cultural journalist and author SOPHIE MENIN’s 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 focuses on the myriad ways that wine connects us with our senses and the rhythms of the natural world, and can be found in her online journal lifewithwine.com. She lives in New York with her husband and daughter.