Michèle Shah - is a freelance journalist, consultant for the Italian wine trade, and a wine, food, and travel writer.

Janice Robinson - Master of Wine and award-winning TV host, has written millions of words about wine, in books such as The Oxford Companion to Wine (3rd, substantially revised edition due out sep 06) and the latest, 5th, edition of The World Atlas of Wine (with Hugh Johnson), as wine correspondent of the Financial Times, and for www.jancisrobinson.com, nowadays her principal preoccupation.