Q&A: Wine Exam Tips

  I love when I get questions from friends and readers. Greg has pointed out to me that when I get a question and write up an answer, I ...

Wine Media For Everybody: Easy Ways to Learn About Wine

My last post was really for the uber wine-geeks out there and I know most of you probably aren’t looking to go down the road of wine ...

Of Take-Out, Tissues and Index Cards: WSET Advanced Level Exam

(And Differences from the CMS Certified)  A while ago I promised to tell you what I was doing while I was in hibernation at the b...

Zins in Dry Creek

Prior to our Black Friday Wine Tasting , Greg and I had the opportunity to do some wine tasting in Sonoma earlier in the year as well...

Black Friday Wine Tasting 2: Pinot in the Russian River Valley & Healdsburg

Last year we got in 2 quick trips to the Bay Area, with 2 rounds of wine tasting, two rounds of tasty eating, and a lot of fun. I’m goin...

Mendoza . . . in one BIG post

Catena Zapata Time to finally move on to the last phase of our trip – Mendoza. Our time in B.A. was all about eating and wan...

Check me out on FoodArts.com!

I recently attended a wonderful event at The International Culinary Center devoted to Lambrusco. It was a day of wine tasting combin...

The Somm Test

I’d like to break my extremely slow coverage of our trip to Argentina to tell you about exactly what’s been taking me away from writ...

Happy Drinking!

We returned from our Argentine Adventure one month ago today. It was beyond amazing. There was a lot of eating and a lot of wine,  and...

Thanksgiving in California Wine Country

Wine is a big deal at our family’s Thanksgivings. We spend Thanksgivings with Greg’s family (my fam gets X-mas) and every other ...

Napa School

I had one other really awesome volunteer experience this week, and this one involved quite a bit of wine. Wine just makes everything ...

Culinary School Confidential – Level 2, Week 4 – Wine Day

My friend Pam and I setting up for wine day. (Picture courtesy of my friend Anna) Many people ask me how big a component wine is in the pr...

FCI Chef Demos: Beer & Food Pairing

A couple of weeks ago I volunteered to help at a particularly fun Chef Demonstration. One of my current instructors, Chef Lisa LaCorte, co-l...

Leftover Makeover: Bits & Pieces Cocktail

  If you to look in our freezer, you might think that there are some weird hoarding issues going on.  There are plastic bags filled wit...

Wine Weekend in the Finger Lakes

A small reception to celebrate the marriage of our friends Matt and Laura got us out of the city and upstate this past weekend.  They got...

The High Line: Now Twice As Fun

Today one of my favorite spots in NYC got even better.   Twice as good to be exact. I fell in love with the High Line the first time I...