Lana Bortolot

Lana Bortolot is the East Coast editor for The Tasting Panel magazine, a leading trade magazine for the wine and spirits industry for whom she reports on country trends. She has covered wine in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Chile and Israel. She is a general assignment reporter and travel writer whose work has appeared in the International Herald Tribune, amNewYork, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun. Lana has contributed to several guidebooks including Rome in Detail: A Guide for the Expert Traveler, and the City Secrets guidebooks for Italy and New York City. She writes frequently on culture and lifestyle, and is a contributing writer to elemente, an arts & design magazine. Closer to home in New York City, her reportage interests focus on community and historic preservation.