​​Jonathan Cristaldi is a wine writer, host, and auctioneer. Based in the SF Bay Area he is Decanter magazine's Napa Valley Correspondent. His annual Napa Cabernet vintage report is one of the magazine's most widely read and anticipated articles. For more than a decade, his articles on wine, spirits, and beer have appeared in local and national print and digital platforms, including Decanter, Food & Wine, Departures; The SOMM Journal; Tasting Panel Magazine; Liquor.com; Seven Fifty Daily; Los Angeles Magazine; LA Mag’s Liquid LA blog; Thrillist (National Edition); Tasting Table (National Edition); Time Out LA; Complex Magazine's First We Feast blog; Vivino; and Psychology Today. When not writing about wine, Cristaldi works as a scriptwriter on film and documentary projects with award-winning commercial photographer and director Rachid Dahnoun. Specialties: Content creation, writing, editing, copywriting, scriptwriting, directing, marketing, social media strategy, public relations, pitching new business, project managing, supervising, creative strategy, brand strategy, social media strategy, interest in emerging technologies, brainstorming, innovation, visionary, creative writing, music, crafting experiences around wine and food, can play fives songs on the five-string banjo.