Writers

Elaine Chukan Brown

Elaine Chukan Brown is a writer, speaker, and illustrator. She serves as the American specialist for JancisRobinson.com, and a contributing writer to Wine & Spirits Magazine. She is the IWSC Wine Communicator of the Year 2020/21

Elaine and Grandmother Lead

Columns

What my Alaskan Native grandmother taught me about wine writing

Elaine Chukan Brown is the newly crowned IWSC Wine Communicator of the Year, and will be appearing regularly on Club O over the next 12 months. Here, she tells us what we can expect – and how her heritage inspires her work

Silverado Trail vineyards beneath clouds which cover the mountain landscape

Features

Screaming Eagle: the original California cult wine

Screaming Eagle stands alone as the most inaccessible winery in California wine country. Elaine Chukan Brown pays a visit

VIneyard

Reports

The changing styles of California Chardonnay

California Chardonnay has swung from lush to skinny and back again in the past two decades, and finally the pendulum has come to rest

Reports

A report on Premiere Napa Valley wine auction and the 2017 vintage

Elaine Chukan Brown reports on the annual Premiere Napa Valley - a preview of Napa’s latest vintage - where buyers bid on wines made specially for the auction