Taylor Eason

Taylor Eason is the founder of tayloreason.com, a website dedicated to all things wine with a gourmet food element tossed in. She's the Curator of the Weekly Feed eNewsletter produced by the Planet each week to cover food and wine news from around the Tampa Bay area.

Taylor Eason is an Atlanta native and self-proclaimed Southern girl. In 1991, she earned her undergraduate degree in English/French Literature from Colgate University, whose proximity to New York wineries lured her into a fascination with the grape. After graduating, she enrolled at Ecôle Hotelière de Genève in Switzerland, a 15-month restaurant management school that teaches cooking techniques and European wine education. She traveled extensively during her stay in Europe to French, German and Italian wine countries, becoming more wine geeky everyday.

After completing her studies in Europe, Taylor moved to Tampa, Florida to manage at Bern’s Steakhouse, famous for having the most extensive wine list in the world. After two years, she was lured away to the corporate world, designing and managing food & wine websites for Creative Loafing Newspapers, with editions in Atlanta, Tampa Bay, Charlotte, Sarasota, Chicago and Washington DC.

In August 2001, noticing a lack of spunky wine coverage for normal people, she launched a weekly wine education column, Corkscrew. Today, she still treks the world stoking her love of wine, summing up her rather strong vinous opinions every week in her column and everyday on her website, tayloreason.com. She still lives in Tampa with her husband, Scott, and their coveted wine collection.

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