I learned to love wine in the early 90s, tasting in the kitchen of Art and Bunny Finklestein in their then tiny, hand-built Judd’s Hill Winery in Napa. We would hang out at the table in the morning, wine, bread and cheese spread about. I knew immediately that I had found a connector through wine […]
Stephane Tissot, Racines, the Jura, New York, natural wine and me
An even dozen natural beach pack
Most people head to Mexico and drink Mojitas. We mixed up a few, but for our annual family Spring Break in Tulum, it’s about wine and the natural best at that. Tulum is all about being in the zone. Wonderful, refreshing and not-your-standard fare is the rule. The setting: Hot and humid to the max. […]
The Jura, Wink Lorch and the Kickstarter book project
I love the Jura. This tucked away, off the grid wine region on the eastern border of France just touches me at my very core. Truly delicious and unique wines that are at once both foreign and familiar. Indigenous grapes like Trousseau, Poulsard and Savagnin that call only the Jura home. Wines like Vin Jaune […]
The Canary Islands, the Jura and Beaujolais win the popular vote in New Jersey!
At the Thanksgiving table that is! I’m the wine guy in the family, and every Thanksgiving I take a bus from the Port Authority (really a horror) to Jersey to see the extended family (always a kick). Schlepping two bags (6-7 bottles with ice packs) on the #2 train, then on the Martz line is […]
A natural wine blogger’s view of London’s RAW fair
Natural wine is both an aspirational idea and an ever growing reality in the world’s vineyards and marketplaces. For the senses, it’s a wonder. That liveliness in the glass. The layered acidity carrying the flavor forward. Minerality as an homage to terroir. These are the taste memories that the best natural wines trigger on my […]
