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Sharing our passion for wine is a driving force here at Wine Spectator - and all of our professors have considerable wine knowledge, gained through years of covering wine regions around the world, interviewing winemakers and working in vineyards and wineries.
	Gloria Maroti Frazee, Director of Video and Education, New York Gloria Maroti Frazee developed and oversees Wine Spectator School, which offers online courses for consumers and professionals. She also conducts live wine seminars internationally. Plus, she directs Wine Spectator Video; see the free videos at winespectator.com/video. In reality, she is a fine example of another wine consumer gone bad; her first jaunt to wine country in France ended up lasting six weeks. After working crush in Napa Valley, it was all downhill; she quit her job, sold her car and her condo and headed west... to Kellogg Business School outside Chicago. After earning her MBA, she finally made it all the way to a California winery where she managed brands ranging in production from 10,000 to 1.2 million cases and developed nationally-implemented wine appreciation, sales and service training programs. Gloria joined Wine Spectator in 1999.
	James Laube, Senior Editor, California James Laube is a columnist for Wine Spectator and its senior expert on California wine. He lives in Napa and has traveled to and written about most of the major wine regions of the world. A contributor to Wine Spectator since 1980, Laube joined the staff in 1983. Laube has written four books on California wine -- California’s Great Cabernets (1989), California’s Great Chardonnays (1990) and two editions of Wine Spectator’s California Wine (1995 and 1999). The first edition won the James Beard Award for the best wine book of the year in 1996. He tastes more than 5,000 wines a year.
	Kim Marcus, Managing Editor, New York Kim Marcus joined the Wine Spectator staff in 1988 in San Francisco and was reassigned to New York in 1993. He has been a regular taster since 1990. He also authors regular tasting reports on great-value wines. Kim's tasting beat includes Portugal's table wines and southern France.
	Thomas Matthews, Executive Editor, New York Thomas Matthews has been writing for Wine Spectator since 1987, when he was a freelancer living in Bordeaux. Hired full-time in 1988, Matthews served first in the London office, then was reassigned to New York. Tom is the lead taster on Spain.
	James Molesworth, Senior Editor, New York James Molesworth tastes and reports on the Loire Valley, the Rhône Valley, South Africa and South America.
	Bruce Sanderson, Tasting Director and Senior Editor, New York Bruce Sanderson joined Wine Spectator in 1993 after working for the previous five years as a wine steward and in retail wine sales. In addition to overseeing the tasting operations in New York, San Francisco and Europe, he reports on Austria, Alsace, Germany and Champagne.
	Harvey Steiman, Editor at Large, California Harvey Steiman tastes and reports on a wide variety of wine types, but his primary areas of responsibility as a critic are Australia and the Pacific Northwest. Steiman joined Wine Spectator in 1984, after serving as food and wine editor of the San Francisco Examiner. Wine Spectator recently published Steiman's Essentials of Wine, a comprehensive introduction to wine basics.
	James Suckling, European bureau chief, Italy James Suckling joined Wine Spectator in 1981, when it was based in San Diego. He moved with the magazine to San Francisco in 1982, and in 1985 was reassigned to Europe. He lived in Paris for two years and then moved to London, where he resided for 11 years. He now lives in Tuscany, Italy. Suckling began blind-tasting young Bordeaux in 1983 with the late author and wine producer Alexis Lichine, and has continued to rate every vintage of Bordeaux in barrel and in bottle ever since. He spends at least a month a year in Bordeaux tasting wines and visting châteaus. In addition, he tastes all of the wines of Italy for the magazine, reviewing more than 2,000 samples a year. Suckling wrote a comprehensive book on collectible Port, Vintage Port, which has become the bible of vintage Port aficionados. He continues to write about and rate the fortified wines of Portugal.