About the Author

Andrew Chalk is a Dallas, Texas based author who writes about wine, food and travel all over the world. Andrew has contributed to such publications as, Wine Business, Wine Industry Advisor, Meininger's Wine Business International, Wines & Vines, John Mariani’s Virtual Gourmet, Somm Journal, Wine-Searcher.com, and his own blog TheChalkReport.

He is the author of the book Top Texas Wineries.

He is a lifelong dog owner with a preference for Westies. In the course of dozens of trips to Texas wineries over a decade he realized that the dogs that lived there were a central part of winery life. Consequently, this book was born.