Jennifer Ilacqua grew up in Italy, where her father's knowledge of wine was simply part of the household. He knew the producers, the vintages, the regions — not because it was his job, but because it mattered to him. That early exposure shaped how Jennifer thinks about wine: as something worth understanding properly, not just drinking.

A philologist by training, Jennifer speaks four languages and brings the same analytical eye to wine writing that she applies to texts. At Acinipo, she covers the wines and regions she finds most worth writing about — with the perspective of someone who knows Italian wine well enough to appreciate what makes Spain's south genuinely different.