Wes Marshall, The Wine Roads of Texas
Wes Marshall started collecting wine when he was 17 years old and the legal drinking age was 21. He later discovered the salutary effect taking girls to his college dormitory room to show them his ill-gotten wine collection ("You drink wine? How interesting!"). Since then, his writing career has centered more on music and film and the equipment to enjoy them with at home. But during the dot-com boom, his home town of Austin developed a thirst for fine wine, and he was able to wangle a job with a newspaper covering wine.
One day, his editor asked him to cover Texas wine. Wes was not very interested, but, under duress, went to a couple of wineries and was shocked to discover good wines! Shortly thereafter, Wes wrote The Wine Roads of Texas, which went on to win the Wine Press Award from the Texas Wine and Grape Growers, and is currently in its third printing of the second edition. Wes also served as the Executive Producer for the three-part PBS documentary based on his book. He is now hard at work on his next book, What's a Wine Lover To Do, due in 2009 on the Artisan imprint of Workman Publishing.
Wes now has a column in the Austin Chronicle called Liquid Assets, he is a special contributor to the Dallas Morning News, and writes regularly for Wine & Spirits, The Wine Enthusiast, Imbibe, and Wines & Vines. He continues to write about home theater equipment, opera and classic films for SoundStage.
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