Jeb Dunnuck is an American

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based in

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. He reviews wines from the Rhône Valley (North and South),

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Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

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, and

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for his website.

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by training, Dunnuck grew up on a farm in rural

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. In 1996, when living abroad and traveling through Europe, he became interested in fine wine. Dunnuck later traveled extensively throughout the wine regions of

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and the

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, developing a passion for the wines of the Rhône valley and the

Rhone Ranger The Rhone Rangers are a group of American winemakers who promote the use of grape varieties from the Rhône Valley. They are mostly based on the West Coast, particularly California, and have created a not-for-profit organization for the promotion ...

Movement in California and Washington. To gain a better understanding of the business side of the wine industry, he took a temporary wine retail position in 2006. Dunnuck launched "The Rhône Report" publication and website in 2008 and began releasing a quarterly newsletter reviewing Rhône variety wines from around the world. Completely independent and including coverage on wines from

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, and both California and Washington in the United States; by 2013, the Report was read in over 24 countries and seen as one of the leading authorities on Rhône variety wines. In 2013, Dunnuck was approached by Robert Parker to join ''

The Wine Advocate ''The Wine Advocate'', fully known as ''Robert Parker's Wine Advocate'' and informally abbreviated ''TWA'' or ''WA ''or more recently as ''RP'', is a bimonthly wine publication based in the United States featuring the consumer advice of wine criti ...

'' as a full-time reviewer. From 2013 to 2017, he reviewed wines for Parker's ''Wine Advocate'' and eRobertParker.com, the global bimonthly wine publication and website founded by Parker. In 2017, Dunnuck left ''The Wine Advocate'' to create his own publication at JebDunnuck.com. As of 2023, he reviews the wines of numerous regions such as Southern France, the Rhône Valley, Bordeaux, California, and Washington State.

Works

Dunnuck wrote the image processing software for two

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programs. The first was the

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(HiRISE) instrument that is currently orbiting

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and the second is the

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program, which is NASA's mission to search for other habitable planets.

Personal life

Dunnuck resides in Colorado with his wife and a dog. Most of his family still lives in Delaware County. His brother and sister are both local attorneys and his sister currently serves as a local judge. His father was killed in a single vehicle car crash on September 19, 2022.https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2022/09/20/longtime-attorney-don-dunnuck-fatally-injured-in-crash/69505723007/

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dunnuck, Jeb 1975 births Living people American wine critics People from Muncie, Indiana Ball State University alumni American male writers American aerospace engineers

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