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Producer, marketing strategist, sounding board and invaluable idea-generator for SteepleJack<\/em>, she is the person who can understand a person\u2019s dreams and turn them into reality. A longtime friend who has the deepest and widest set of relationships with Italian wine producers of anyone I know, she is also mom to Italo, the feisty Jack Russell who occasionally features in SJ stories<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wine & food writer extraordinaire and genius nickname-giver who decided mine was SteepleJack<\/em>. Here is Jordan\u2019s dramatic rationale for the nickname. In days of yore, the steeplejack was a village’s solitary guardian of the heights, scaling church spires to tend the bells and weathervanes that watched over entire communities, working alone where others feared to climb. Likewise, Stephanie “SteepleJack” Johnson ascends where others dither: tall and lean as the steeples themselves, she ventures brashly into the world of wine, casting her gaze from rarefied altitudes. Uncompromising and incorruptible, she works alone, her insights ringing clear across the valleys of our understanding\u2014each bottle uncovered, every vintage chronicled, another call to climb higher, look farther, and taste what awaits the bold at wine’s sacred peaks.\u2014Jordan Mackay<\/p>\n<\/details>\n <\/p>\n Gifted Brooklyn-based artist who created the SteepleJack<\/em> image, SJ monogram and portrait<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Talented designer for the Argo Business Solutions<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span> team who created the look and structure of this website<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Many thanks to Joshua Greene, Tara Q Thomas and the ever-evolving team at W&S Magazine <\/em>for starting me on my professional journey into the beautiful world of Italian wine. The US wine community continues to feel the loss of this influential and principled publication.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SJ COLLABORATORS Livia Alyson Careaga [no link because she likes to remain mysterious] Producer, marketing strategist, sounding board and invaluable idea-generator for SteepleJack, she is the person who can understand a person\u2019s dreams and turn them into reality. A longtime friend who has the deepest and widest set of relationships with Italian wine producers of anyone I know, she is also mom to Italo, the feisty Jack Russell who occasionally features in SJ stories Jordan Mackay Wine & food writer extraordinaire and genius nickname-giver who decided mine was SteepleJack. Here is Jordan\u2019s dramatic rationale for the nickname. Read Jordan\u2019s rationaleIn days of yore, the steeplejack was a village’s solitary guardian of the heights, scaling church spires to tend the bells and weathervanes that watched over entire communities, working alone where others feared to climb. Likewise, Stephanie “SteepleJack” Johnson ascends where others dither: tall and lean as the steeples themselves, she ventures brashly into the world of wine, casting her gaze from rarefied altitudes. Uncompromising and incorruptible, she works alone, her insights ringing clear across the valleys of our understanding\u2014each bottle uncovered, every vintage chronicled, another call to climb higher, look farther, and taste what awaits the bold at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-blank.php","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-689","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steeplejackwine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steeplejackwine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steeplejackwine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steeplejackwine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steeplejackwine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/steeplejackwine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/steeplejackwine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steeplejackwine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Jordan Mackay<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\nRead Jordan\u2019s rationale<\/u><\/summary>\n
Maki Yamaguchi <\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
Erika Grattapaglia<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Wine & Spirits Magazine<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n