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Robert Camuto is the author of Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country (November 2008 University of Nebraska Press). Robert has written about winemakers and wine news as well as epicurean travel for  the Wine Spectator and has been a contributor of epicurean, cultural and general travel features to the Washington Post, Travel.

 A Manhattan native and graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism, Robert has over 25 years contributed to publications including the New York Times, New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, D (Dallas) Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald and many more.

Robert began a full-time newspaper career in 1984 in Texas, working as a beat political reporter for the legendary, fearless Dallas Times Herald. He later worked as a writer and editor for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, before founding the alternative newsweekly Fort Worth Weekly (www.fwweekly.com) in 1996.

The Weekly won numerous journalism awards and developed a reputation for both its solid reporting and irreverent attitude. Seeking new personal and professional adventure, Robert sold the paper at the end of 2000, and moved from Texas to France with his French-born wife and their Texas-born son.

The Camuto family renovated a centuries-old olive oil mill to serve as their home outside of Grasse in the south of France.

As Robert traveled throughout France, he came to know many regional winemakers, in whom he found something essentially heroic: resistance to cookie-cutter globalization.  Rather than chasing international trends, these French vintners are striving to make local wines that are true expressions of their soils and clime: terroir. This generation of winemakers leading a renaissance of quality, diversity and ecological responsibility-- from Saint-Emilion to the Loire Valley and from Provence to Alsace-- inspired Robert to write Corkscrewed.

Robert is an associate member of the Association of Sommeliers in Nice-Provence-Cote D'Azur. When not traveling, he cultivates olives and vines on his property. He and a fellow wine lover began making red wine on the property in 2006.