About

I started this blog in 2006 as my manifesto's metamorphosis. It started with my love for theater and then moved on to my appreciation of wine through tasting and understanding the process for a more organic experience while sharing the knowledge and enthusiasm with the world to showcasing some freelance writing I was doing all the way through to my attempts at gardening and connecting with nature. Fast forward to 2023, and here I am, married with 2 children and a cat, trying to navigate my way through.

My parents have had the occasional wine during dinner.  It wasn't until a trip along the Seneca Lake wine trail in the Finger Lakes in 2002 with my college roommates did I finally experience my first wine tasting. Stops at Red Newt Cellars, Atwater Estate Vineyards and finally sunning on the deck overlooking Seneca Lake at Leidenfrost Vineyards with a glass of Gewurztraminer, I learned that wine can be, well, fun.

And having a birthday in October, prime harvesting and wine making season, just made it all the better.  Year after year of celebrating my birthday since that Finger Lakes experience has taken me, family and the closest of friends all over New Jersey, New York, Long Island and Connecticut.  My palate evolved from the sweet white wines to smokey and oaky reds.  This was an experience not to be enjoyed by myself, but to spread the enthusiasm to those closest to me.

And it didn't stop there.  The passion to taste wines has brought me to the ice wine regions of Montreal and Mont Tremblant, the Pinot Noir region of the Willamette Valley in Oregon, the Cabernet Sauvignon region of Napa Valley, California and to home made recipes in Italy.  It is just the beginning.  I even found a life long partner who, himself, is a winemaker with a recipe passed down from his Grandfather.

What you'll find in this blogosphere of space, is a combination of my creative skills as a writer, photographer and avid traveler.  But most importantly, it's the sharing of one thing.  Wine.