A Wine Geek’s Guide to 14 Top New Jersey Wineries and Choice Wines to Try During Your Winetasting Visits
If you’ve just discovered New Jersey makes wine and are considering venturing out to wineries to try some for yourself and want to know where to begin, you’re in the right place.[Read more]
New Jersey Wine 101: It’s Time to Take a Look at New Jersey Wine
When I emailed my friend and wine-aficionado-buddy, Frank, who’s lived in New Jersey his entire life to get recommendations of New Jersey wineries to visit during my first-ever trip to sample the state’s wine, his response was “New Jersey makes wine?”[Read more]
Review: White Horse Winery Farmhouse – A Modern, Boutique BNB in Wine Country
You’ve decided to go on a weekend winetasting trip in New Jersey, and you’re looking for a place to stay.[Read more]
What It’s Like to Travel & Fly Internationally from the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic: My Experience as a Wine Lover Traveling to Germany
I haven’t traveled an hour radius from my home in seven months since the start of the pandemic in March, but last month I spent a week in Germany.[Read more]
The Evolution of Chilean Carmenere – TerraNoble Winery’s Exploration of Carmenere Terroir
If you haven’t had carmenere in the last five years, now is a good time to try it again because it has evolved into something rather special.[Read more]
Oregon Biodynamic Wine in the Spotlight: Stunning Examples from Troon Vineyard and Winderlea Vineyards & Winery
Similar to the way twenty-five years ago you probably didn’t know you preferred organic vegetables, you probably don’t know you prefer biodynamic wine yet.[Read more]
New Zealand Wine Tasting at Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm in New York
New Zealand Wine hosted a tasting in September 2019 at Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm in the middle of Brooklyn.
It’s not often one gets to taste wines in such a unique environment.
And as someone who attends a lot of tastings in Manhattan, this setting definitely transported me and my senses in way that doesn’t usually happen in more traditional tasting environments.
Below are some my favorite wines from the event.
For detailed tasting notes of the wines just enter the name of the wine in the search bar.
Slow Wine’s February 2020 New York tasting was quite beautiful.
I attended an education session on Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo, which produces rosé made from Montepulciano and is Italy’s first DOC dedicated to rosé in Italy (more about that later).
Here are my favorite wines from the event that was hosted at Eataly downtown.
Again, sauvignon blanc shined because of its grassy elements which I’m missing given the preponderance of overripe American sauvignon blanc.
My favorite wines from the February Benvenuto Brunello 2020 winetasting in New York.
A Rare Bodega Norton Gernot Langes Vertical Tasting and Other 125th Anniversary Gems
Mendoza, Argentina is one of my all-time favorite wine regions to visit.[Read more]
