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If you love Italian wines, you will want to mark your calendars for the James Suckling Great Wines Italy, New York, September 3-4, 2025 that takes place at The Altman Building in Manhattan. Featuring 300 highly rated wines of 90+ points and above from 160 top producers, the James Suckling Great Wines Italy will take your palate on a trip across Italy featuring wines from Northern Italy, Central Italy, and Southern Italy. As the wines differ each day, we will …

The Frick Collection located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York at 70th Street and Fifth Avenue, across from Central Park is much more than a world-class Museum, as it also provides visitors with the rare opportunity to experience Old Master paintings, European sculpture, and decorative arts in a stunning Gilded Age Mansion. Built between 1912 – 1914 by Thomas Hastings for the American industrialist Henry Clay Frick and his wife Adelaide Howard Childs Frick, The Frick Collection …

The Dimenna Center for Classical Music in Manhattan, New York at the Baryshnikov Arts, was the site of the inaugural Wine & Opera Festival 2025 held on Sunday, July 20, 2025. This unique Festival combined a selection of excellent wines to pair with exceptional selections from opera sung by the renowned opera singers and Founders of the Festival, Crystallia Spileou and Michael Karl. It was a perfect way to spend a Summer Sunday afternoon in New York City. Bravo!  On …

The latest release Chris Vincent & The Raw Deals – Good Crook is the second release from Chris Vincent & the Raw Deals. Crossing Blues, Delta Blues, Jazz, swagger, and improvisation, the release covers love, love lost, crossroads we take, and life as it takes form over time. The release echoes Chris Vincent’s feelings towards the transition that New Orleans is going through. Powerful, imaginative, poignant, and defining, is the best way to encase the release. Good Crook: Good Crook, …

Louis Pommery Carneros Chardonnay 2022 is a stunning Chardonnay for those that prefer crisper and more complex, rather than buttery chardonnays. Meticulously made from 100% chardonnay grapes from a single vineyard in northern California in Los Carneros, California, the Louis Pommery Carneros Chardonnay 2022 heralds the signature of the Louis Pommery style and is a beautiful complement to the House of Pommery’s exceptional wines. Cheers! Pommery Champagne has been renowned for its excellence and quality around the world since the …

The third and latest release from the Soul-Blues duo Long Tall Deb & Colin John – Long Tall Deb & Colin John – Light It Up is a Blues and Roots-Rock triumph. Comprised of 8 original and 2 cover tracks, the melding of the vocals from “Long Tall Deb” Landolt with the musicianship of a Who’s Who list of musicians (i.e., Colin John, Chris Bulter, Jason Edward, Pascal Fouquet, Alastair Greene, Stever Marriner, Jenifer Milligan, and Zac Var) makes for …

I have noted in past materials that I am an aspiring bread maker, known in the family as Boulanger Edward, who loves to try new bread recipes, but what took me so long to tackle sourdough? I came across the website Ballerina Farm that made making sourdough not only seem like fun, but made the process required exciting. So, I ordered my first Sourdough Kit from Ballerina Farm and I was off and running (so to speak). Ballerina Farm has …

If you like bananas, you are going to go, yes, bananas, over Clément Bana Canne French Caribbean Liqueur from the island of Martinique. Made with locally sourced bananas and rhum Agricole, this is an exceptional spirit imported by SPIRIBAM that will inspire both bartenders and cocktailians with its endless possibilities. We used it to create three great cocktail recipes and also used it to create a luscious dessert to show its versatility. Cheers! Bottle Notes: “Clément Bana Canne French Caribbean …

San Felice Borgo Chianti Classico DOCG 2022 is a gorgeous wine that is part of San Felice’s Vitiarium collection “designed for high-end dining that authentically express the surrounding vineyards and embodies both tradition and innovation in winemaking.” The collection includes 4 distinct labels: San Felice Borgo Chianti Classico DOCG 2022, San Felice In Avane Chardonnay Toscana IGT 2022, La Pieve Chianti Classico DOCG Gran Selezinone 2021, and Pugnitello Toscana IGT 2021, each one with their unique character. Salud! San Felice …

We love cider; fresh cider as well as hard cider, and were thrilled to attend the first Spring CT Cider Fest hosted by the Connecticut Cider Association and held at the Long View Ciderhouse, in Southington, Connecticut. The festival featured a diverse selection of excellent ciders, as well as interesting meads and spirits, all produced in the state of Connecticut. Live music by the Connecticut band Always Morning and food available for purchase from a variety of food trucks created …