Back in May I started a new collaboration with Pinch My Spice and Moishe Mayer that I just love: #WineandspicE. WE. Three professionals—one devoted to food, another to wine, and me to everything—creating content that has been overwhelmingly well-received.
Our second run in less than a year, Bush Terminal bourbon is back on the shelves! It’s a badass bourbon brand created in Brooklyn by yours truly in collaboration with Fort Hamilton Distillery.
Structure: a way to describe a wine’s components in the mouth considering fruit concentration, level of sweetness, acidity, tannin, and alcohol. This is where my head was when developing a brand for a random barrel of Tannat that winemaker extraordinaire Josh Klapper offered up.
I’d always dug what I knew of Emidio Pepe, but upon being with the family and understanding their beautifully simple philosophies of farming and winemaking, well, it’s amore.
Unfortunately, our lives are full of ethnocentrism, xenophobia, misogyny, racism, etc. Why bring something so lovely as wine into the disaccord? Don’t be a winogynist!
I recently attended a Uruguayan wine masterclass led by Master Sommelier Peter Granoff, and it was fire! I tasted through 11 wines and here's what I learned.
Israeli wine is maturing, coming into its own. Winemakers are learning to ease off the barrel and trying their best to maintain as much acidity as possible. And where heat plays against them, innovation is on their side. If anyone is going to make wine...