Sonia Portales

1991 to 2006: Clive Coates T/A The Vine magazine
. Translating wine-related literature (articles, book extracts etc.).
. Proof-reading and on-screen editing of Clive Coates' articles, monthly magazine The Vine and five of his most comprehensive books on wine.
. Liaising with typesetters, printers and various top British, American and European publishers and editors (Decanter, Decanter.com, Wine Magazine, Harpers...), the USA (QRW, Wine News...), Europe (Falstaff in Austria, Wein Gourmet in Germany) and the Far East (Grapevine in Japan, Wine & Dine in Singapore) prior to publication.
. Directly involved in the publication of all bar one of Clive Coates' prestigious books on wine and worked in close collaboration with long-established British and American publishers (Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Cassell), Mitchell Beazley, the University of California Press).

1991 to date: Freelance work (various clients)
. Currently working with Clive Coates on his forthcoming Burgundy book and other British and French clients.
. Transcription/Translation for The Word Store/Anne Silk.
. Business/Legal translation for Hatch Mansfield Agencies.
. Translating articles which were later published in French magazines such as Bourgogne Aujourd'hui, L'Amateur de Bordeaux...
. Transcribing and translating work for the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union.
. Translating the contents of a CD Rom on wine later released by Bacchus/François Mauss, President of Grand Jury Européen.
. Translating wine estate profiles commissioned by various wine-growers and proprietors in France (e.g. Châteaux Palmer, D'Angludet, Trottevieille, Le Tertre Roteboeuf, etc. in Bordeaux; Domaine Des Comtes Lafon, Domaine Drouhin, Domaine Ramonet, etc. in Burgundy; Maison Paul Jaboulet Aîné in the Rhône Vallée, Mas de Daumas Gassac in the Languedoc, etc., etc.)