- Steve Heimoff
Steve Heimoff is an American wine writer, a
California wine expert, [cite web|last= Brown |first= Corie, "Los Angeles Times" |title= Central Coast rebels with a winemaking cause |url= http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-tangent25jul25,1,7896689.story?coll=la-headlines-food |date= July 25, 2007 ] the West Coast Editor for "Wine Enthusiast Magazine " since 1994, and previously from 1989 to 1994 a contributor to "Wine Spectator ".In an open letter to the "
San Francisco Chronicle ", Heimoff warned fellow criticJames Laube of "Wine Spectator" that due to his position as a critic in a prominent magazine, he should be more cautious about branding wines as being tainted when most wine drinkers do not have the same level of sensitivity to detect anything wrong with those wines. [cite web|last= Heimoff |first= Steve, "San Francisco Chronicle": Letters to Wine |url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/23/WIGK48SKIC1.DTL |title= Critic Laube cautioned on the power of his palate | date= September 23, 2004]Heimoff has published the books "A Wine Journey along the Russian River", released in 2005, and "New Classic Winemakers of California: Conversations with Steve Heimoff" in 2007. [cite web|last=staff|first= "San Francisco Chronicle" | title= Intoxicating reads for armchair boozehounds |url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/23/WI6JTBVBN.DTL | date= November 23, 2007 ] [cite web|last=Asimov |first= Eric, "The New York Times": The Pour |title= It’s Just Fine to Drink and Read |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/dining/19pour.html?pagewanted=2&fta=y |date= December 19, 2007]
ee also
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List of wine personalities References
* [http://www.winemag.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=DF51BF6739994DC7A29DF9D0C2BC5CF9&type=gen&mod=Core%20Pages&gid=85DF0670601A4AA9934DD4C8A40165D4 Steve Heimoff profile] "Wine Enthusiast";Footnotes
External links
* [http://steveheimoff.com/ Steve Heimoff official site]
* [http://blog.winemag.com/steve/ "Wine Enthusiast Magazine's Unreserved" blog by Steve Heimoff]
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