Patrick Comiskey

Patrick Comiskey is a Senior Contributor for Wine & Spirits Magazine, where he serves as chief critic for all domestic wines not from California, and regularly contributes articles devoted to California, Oregon and Washington wine, winegrowing, and wine culture.

He has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. wine regions, as well as France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, and tastes more than 3000 wines a year. He has taught classes and moderated panels on viticulture and wine tasting, and the world’s wine regions, and has written educational materials for restaurants as well as internet web sites.

Comiskey is a regular contributor to the Food Section of the Los Angeles Times and the LA Weekly, is a founding contributor to zesterdaily.com. He has been a columnist with Wine Review Online, and has contributed to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Wine section, and appears regularly in Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Decanter, and the Robb Report. He lives in Los Angeles, where he’s writing a history and guide to the American Rhône wine movement.