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Restaurant Week in the Hudson Valley

Monday, March 11 marks the beginning of Hudson Valley’s Restaurant Week lasting through March 24th. The event was kicked off on Tuesday...

Florida is for Lovers, not coffee drinkers…

Drinking coffee in Florida is like drinking wine in Nevada, necessary but, not the best. The funny part is, a lot of people are drinking...

Stop Selling and Start Solving

The public has a bad image of sales people and the idea of sales in general. They are viewed as someone who is trying to lure our money...

Port Chester Crawl

Just outside Manhattan between the Bronx and Connecticut lies the under-talked about Port Chester, the “food capitol of Westchester”. A...

Hook it up with JavaHook

I am always interested in new businesses, entrepreneurs, and products that find their way into your routine and can no longer be lived...

America’s Wine Cradle

We’re all familiar with the great wines being produced in Napa and Sonoma, but most people forget (or perhaps never knew) the birthplace...

Newburgh New-brew

Newburgh, NY has been the underdog for the last hundred years. It was a boomtown during the Gilded Age, with its ideal position between...

A Call to Arms!

Friends, New Yorkers, Countrymen, lend me your ears. We sit at the feet of one of the most lush, fertile and bountiful lands in all the...

OktoBEERfest

It’s high season in the Hudson Valley, what with leaf-peeping, pumpkin-patching, apple-picking and corn-mazing, which means when you...

The Little Wine Bus That Could

As I came to find out, the Hudson Valley was the birthplace of wine in America. So, it no surprise there are many established vineyards...

River Roasters

The Hudson Valley is home to the Culinary Institute of America, as well as award winning restaurants, numerous renown vineyards &...

A Grand Portfolio

I enjoyed a tasting which included their Tocai Fiulano Reserve with rich, tart fruit and a smooth finish. The Chardonay Reserve had a...

Daytripper: Woodstock

If the current election jargon is getting to you and you’ve had just about enough of “the Man”, you should head for the hills as so many...

Balkan Wine Project

Last week at Winebow‘s annual Vintner’s Harvest the room was filled with amazing wines from around the world. From the Hudson valley to...

Johnny Apple-cider

Cider Apples Whatever you do, don’t say the apple cider tastes like apples! This will get you kicked out of a cider tasting pretty much...

Made with Honor, Sold on Hipster

Every so many years a new cool beer is chosen to be the mascot of the poor yet proud educated youth. The newly chosen emblem of awesome...

Coffee Fest

Keeping it real. Vita’s espresso still rocks! Just when you thought Seattle had lost its coffee-edge, bam! It’s back. I was just in...

Billions of Brazilian Beans

Brazil is a young America. It has abundant natural resources, a huge agricultural industry and a large work force. All of these factors...

Daytripper – E.L.I.

True, we are past Labor Day but don’t count out Sag Harbor and Shelter Island for your weekend retreat. This is the best time of the year...

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