Easter Dinner and Me: Not an Easy Pair

Wine pairing for Easter dinner should be easy. Riesling is a perfect match if you are serving ham, but if you’re having a heartier meal of lamb look for highly tannic bold reds such as Syrah or Cabernet Sauvignon.

Tags: Easter

Israeli Wine for Passover

It’s spring, and Passover and Easter are almost upon us. The first of these holidays is Passover, which begins at sundown on Friday, April 6. Whether you are hosting a Seder or bringing wine as a guest, you may already be thinking about your choices.

Rating the Wine Lists

As a wine lover, I’m pleased to report that New Jersey ranks fourth in the nation for per- capita wine consumption. By comparison, for every four glasses of wine a Jersey girl or guy raises to toast, someone from Mississippi is only drinking one.

Tags: Jersey City | Atlantic City | Newark | Princeton | East Rutherford | Bedminster | Avalon | Bobby Flay Steak | Hardyston

Get Educated in NJ About Wines

In this month’s March issue, you can read all about the past, present and future of New Jersey’s wine industry, get a taste profile of the Garden State’s wines and learn about building your own wine cellar. Your curiosity may be piqued and you might like to explore more about wine. Here are some places to start whether you are a novice, an enthusiast, or an enthusiastic novice.

Tags: Flemington | Montclair | New Providence | Lakehurst | Port Jervis | Park Ridge | WSET

Spring Fever Means Spring Festivals

Spring is just around the corner and that means the start of a season filled with wine and food events in the Garden State. The season includes two major events the final weekend in March: the New Jersey Wine and Food Festival in Sussex County, and the Spring Fever Wine and Food Tasting in Monmouth County.

Tags: food events | events

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