Why Not Jersey Wines?

Why New Jersey wines now? Not a hard question by any means, yet I froze. Not just a chill, a freeze of glacial proportions. That was the first question posed to me by Andrew Meyer in a recent radio interview on WBGO Jazz FM 88.3. My first thought was: Why not?

Tags: Wine | Alba Vineyard | Wine Legislation

A Taste of Jersey Wines

As the saying goes, if you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life. That certainly rang true while working on the March issue of New Jersey Monthly. It’s all about wine—specifically Jersey wines.

Tags: Morristown

Syrah and Shiraz: The Same Grape

Last week I conducted an Old World vs. New World wine tasting in a client’s home. This is one of my favorite tastings to do blindly because you have to rely on your senses; pre-conceived notions are useless.

Everything's Coming Up Super

This week everything seems to be “super” to me, from Jersey’s own Super Bowl champion Giants (hooray!) to a category of wine called Super Tuscans.

Tags: Wine | Italy

Toasting Italy, the Land of Wine

The February issue of New Jersey Monthly is all about Italian food. I thought we should give some equal time to Italian wine, which is as essential to the Italian dining experience as bread and pasta.