Somm-antic Drift
Jessica is a Wine & Spirits columnist for Decanter, Forbes.com, and Texas Monthly. Her work has also appeared in Food & Wine, Wine Enthusiast, Imbibe, GuildSomm, SevenFifty Daily, Southern Living, VinePair, and National Geographic Traveler. Dupuy also co-hosts a wine and spirits podcast, Another Bottle Down, with Mark Rashap of Broadbent Selections. She holds a Diploma with the Wine and Spirits Educational Trust, and is a Certified Sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers, and a Certified Specialist of Wine and Spirits through the Society of Wine Educators.
Jessica is the author of Uchi: The Cookbook, The Salt Lick Cookbook: A Story of Land, Family and Love, Jack Allen’s Kitchen Cookbook, The United Tastes of Texas and The United Tastes of the South through Southern Living, and Tex-Mex: Traditions, Innovations, and Comfort Foods from Both Sides of the Border with Atlanta-based chef Ford Fry. Her latest book, The Wines of Southwest U.S.A., a part of the Classic Wine Library, covers the emerging American wine regions in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado.
Dupuy holds a B.A. in History from Trinity University and an M.A. in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She is a member of Les Dames D’Escoffier–Austin and lives in the Texas Hill Country. Among the things she enjoys most are cooking with her kids, sharing great wine with friends, and fly fishing with her husband.
Follow her on Instagram at @jessicandupuy.