Almost exactly 14 years ago, after attending a tasting at the monthly meeting of the Wine Media Guild in New York, I first wrote about New Zealand wines in my weekly column in the Newark Star Ledger. NZ wines were relative newcomers to the American market, so much so that …
Conventional wisdom often calls for matching wine and cheese from the sameregion, such as Loire Valley Sauvignon Blanc and the region’s equally famous goat cheese. This does not necessarily work for California’s most famous white, Chardonnay, and cheese that comes from the same place, say Sonoma. After all, europe has …
The Fine Wine Importers Alliance is, as the name implies, a group of wine importers. I can’t tell you much else about the FWIA since little about it exists online or in the portfolio notes for the tasting FWIA put on last April at the Plaza Hotel in New York. …
Though has remained the preeminent red wine region of Spain, over the past 10 to 15 years, Rioja lost some of its luster (or at least attention) as other regions emerged on the American wine radar. First it was Ribera del Duero and Priorat. Then Toro, Jumilla, Bierzo, Cigales, Rueda and Murcia. …
At the annual Italian Wine Week, held in New York and Chicago in February, there is so much to taste and learn, you hardly know where to start. The New York Wine Week seminar on Cannonau, Sardinia’s Noble Red is a case in point. You may know this grape variety …
Don Meredith, Cowboys QB and television commentator once said, “Life’s heaviest burden is great potential.” For a number of years, this has been the case with the wines of Long Island. Last fall I attended a seminar and tasting of Long Island wines in which some of that potential was …