Iwm Announces Lettie Teague To Join New York Based Team

Former Food & Wine Editor to join Italian Wine Merchants
New York City (July 27, 2009)-Italian Wine Merchants is pleased to announce the appointment of Lettie Teague as Director of Communications, effective July 27, 2009. Teague was Food & Wine's Executive Wine Editor for twelve years, during which time she expanded the magazine's wine coverage significantly-including two annual wine issues, the American Wine Awards and the Best New Restaurant Wine List awards. Teague also wrote a very popular monthly column called "Wine Matters" which won the 2003 James Beard M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award and the 2005 James Beard Magazine Column Award. She is the author of Educating Peter: How I taught a famous movie critic the difference between Cabernet and Merlot and the co-author and illustrator of Fear of Wine.

About Italian Wine Merchants
Founded in 1999, Italian Wine Merchants (IWM) is recognized as the foremost authority and retailer of Italian wines in the US, Hong Kong and Mexico City. Since the company's inception, IWM has worked diligently to form personal relationships with a vast range of Italian winemakers in order to provide collectors and enthusiasts alike with hard-to-find Italian wines as well as cult-favorite, world renowned wines. In addition to IWM's portfolio of current releases, owner Sergio Esposito has amassed one of the greatest collections of vintage Italian wine in the world. IWM complements personalized services with a comprehensive series of wine tastings, monthly wine clubs, cutting edge cellar management, and weekly eletters and a comprehensive website featuring proprietary materials designed to further IWM's educational objective and illuminate the story behind the winemakers and their wines.