With May and New York Riesling month coming to close soon, it is safe to say that I tasted more Riesling this month than any one year in my life. Tags: riesling New York Seneca Wine Trail Finger Lakes The hard part was deciding which ones I would post on the blog. Both were opened with a BBQ chicken dinner. MORE >>

I don't often go with Shirley and Pam to the Saturday morning Central New York Regional Farmer's Market, but I made an exception today. Tags: meritage New York Cayuga Wine Trail Finger Lakes red blend was also out of bed early enough to tag along, which is unusual. did stop at one and tasted their 2007 Meritage. MORE >>

Not intimidated by the Herculean challenge of pairing wine and Korean food , I selected a range of wines for a Korean new year feast last week. Wiemer pleasantly surprised people who were programmed not to like either gewurztraminer or New York wines. It also worked well with the jeon later in the meal, I found. MORE >>

He worked in wine retail in New York City and did wine consulting for seven years. have liked some wines from Tissot ( old vine Poulsard ) and Binner (notably, the gewurztraminer) in the past so was pleased Tim had the chance to taste them. Stephane Tissot from the Jura outside Les Caves Augé in Paris. By Timothy Eustis. MORE >>

The blog started out in 2008 only as fun thing to do and to give my new wine affiliate web site it's first link. That did not come close to changing when I moved to within one hour of the New York Finger Lakes region. just have to learn how to write like a half way descent journalist to really enjoy this new found hobby more. MORE >>