About Leah Jorgensen

Leah Jorgensen is a communications expert who has worked in the wine industry for over a decade. She consults for several wineries and writes about travel, wine and gluten-free living. She contributes to Wine Press Northwest, Mutineer, Oregon Wine Press and authors a couple blogs. She also writes poetry and prose, and enjoys the writing programs at Fishtrap and the Sitka Center for Arts & Ecology. Leah enjoys sipping on northwest and Italian wines, old fashioned cocktails (esp. Manhattans and Sazerac), rare and geeky teas (like monkey picked Tie Guan Yin) and hanging out at taco trucks in the Willamette Valley.

Website

www.leahjorgensen.com

Favorite Foods

Everything gluten free, pork belly, soup, beets, lamb chops, venison medallions, oysters, Dungeness crab, broccolini, marionberries, panna cotta

Favorite Food Writers

Ivy Manning, Jacqueline Mallorca, Patrick O'Connell, Ann Lovejoy

Dream Dinner Guests

Hillary Clinton, Oprah, Julia Roberts, Elizabeth Gilbert, Naomi Wolf, Tori Amos, Maya Angelou, Pema Chodron, Mary Oliver, Sarah McLaughlin, Denyce Graves, Amy Tan

I call myself a…

foodie, organic farmer's lover, wine expert, gluten-free lifestyle writer