I recently hosted a SiriusXM Business Radio special, “Restaurants in Crisis” featuring restaurant owners, chefs, writers, food couriers, and more. We discussed the problems facing the restaurant...
“What Grows Together, Goes Together” Have you heard this adage about pairing food and wines? Local foods have been favored on menus for decades, now, as “farm-to-table” and...
Forget "A-Z", Jet Wine Bar has everything under the sun for Philly Wine Week 2019!
I’ve been seeing a resurgence in Merlot lately. Not in people drinking Merlot, necessarily, but in wine distributors bringing me Merlot to try. I like Merlot, so I took the opportunity to...
Every year at this time, wine lovers across the States seek out favorite wines to pair with their Thanksgiving meal. Mine are already selected; socializing with Arneis, cheese with Palo Cortado...
The first ever Philly Wine Week is now in the books! It was quite a week, with a slew of great wine and great events. There were 22 venues officially participating, each with at least 3 events;...
Thanksgiving is over, sadly, but we still have leftovers! Well, we still have leftover food. The wine is pretty much gone. Down the gullet, as they say. Great food and great wine, but how...
My friend Maria – a fellow wine lover – knows that I adore great and less-common wines and so sent me a very wonderful and eclectic box-full as a wedding present. I cannot wait to try...
I can never, ever pass up a wine from a grape or country that is new to me. So, when I saw the 2009 Cave Caloz Cornalin Les Bernunes from Valais, Switzerland on the shelf at Philly’s 12th...
Those of you who know me well have undoubtedly heard me rave about the red wines I drank in 2002 while visiting Mexico City. Most of the wines produced there are from the Baja region, and resemble...