Jordan Mackay is an award winning Author and Wine Writer, based in San Francisco. In addition to being the wine and spirits writer for San Francisco Magazine, his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Decanter, The Art of Eating, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Punch, and many others. He is the author of Passion for Pinot and (with Rajat Parr) the James Beard Award-winning Secrets of the Sommeliers. Currently, he is working on a book about Texas barbecue and two more books on wine.