Tag: wine
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Escape from New York: Hudson, NY
It was just another one of those weekends when Ian and I had nothing on the books, but our need to leave the city was overwhelming. Adventure, or something like it, was calling. Hudson, NY is by no means an exotic getaway, but it promised some respite from the urban grind. Just two hours via…
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Photo Essay: Tasting Southold Farm + Cellar | North Fork, Long Island
Sundays have become my day of adventure, apparently. Bored with brunch and general city going-ons, Ian and I have taken to exploring the greater New York-area and its environs, in-depth. Sometimes, it’s as close as the Upper West Side, or Brooklyn. Other times, it’s gallivanting off to rural Pennsylvania for a lumberjack festival. This week,…
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Rainy Autumn Playlist: Color | Drain
By the time I got off the L in Bushwick this evening, the sky—which had threatened rain all day—released its wet freight. Underground a mere minutes before I butted heads with meteorology, I had already decided to take the long route home, if only to be outside for a short while. I even wanted to go…
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Profilin’: Mary McAuley of The Ripe Life Wines
I want my wines to be consistently good, yes, but I want each year to speak to the vineyards and the grapes they come from. It’s like buying mass-produced art prints of a famous work versus having a different artist reinterpret that same work, and each time produce something new.
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Wine Craving: Red Tail Ridge’s Sparkling Teroldego
Listen up: if you’re not currently drinking wine from the Finger Lakes, you’re missing out. And if you’re not drinking Red Tail Ridge, well, I feel sorry for you, your kids and your future grandkids. Red Tail Ridge first came on my radar a few months back, when I doing research for an endangered grapes story…
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New York Minute: Snacking
Beny’s Delice, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Saturday Feb. 15, 3:00 PM Goat cheese and tomato quiche Mixed berry custard tart Black coffee, 1 Raw Sugar Pinot Grigio
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Meals I Have Loved: Under the Sea
Monday, Feb. 17, dinner at home. Crab legs in brown butter and scallion sauce Lobster Salt cod cakes Shrimp and scallops cakes Duck rillettes Toast Arugula, lightly dressed in oil and lemon Boodles British London Dry Gin martini Bisson “Abissi” 2011 Spumante Metodo Classico
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Chilly White Wine for Chilly Temps
Baby, it’s cold outside! When the mercury starts to dip, we are naturally more inclined to heartier, warming reds. You know: chewy Malbecs, bone-warming Cabs, spicy Tempranillos. But what if you prefer white wine? Vino blanco gets a bad rap during winter months. “It’s for spring,” you say? Bah! Sipping chilled white (especially from a traditionally cooler-climate country like Germany,…
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A Blast From My Wine-selling Past
Look at the baby me sell wine! Or at least try to cover some ground when someone more qualified than myself didn’t show up for the video. ANYWAY, I’m clearly nowhere near the wine education I’m at now, but hell, I think I did a good job… Tell me things! Throw stones! Point fingers and…
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