I got an e-mail about the Washington Post “chat” as it was about over. Hurried over and asked a question – quickly doing the math converting craft beer production to cases for the wine crowd – but it didn’t make the cut. Perhaps too many facts to deal with.

More about Maloney:

Field Maloney worked in the fiction department at The New Yorker and is a regular contributor to that magazine as well as Slate, The New York Times’ City Section, and Gourmet Magazine, among other publications. He is currently at work on CRUSH: A Clerk’s Tale — a clerk’s-eye view of the wine world — from the store aisle, to the industrial cellar of a Napa winery to his own mini-vineyard on the slopes of his parents’ cider farm in western Massachusetts, which Reagan Arthur at Little, Brown will publish in the US. Canongate will publish the book in the UK.

He’s got somebody’s ear, or eye.