Brad Haskel

Near the end of last year, I attended an event where Kevin Zraly, the famed wine director from Windows on the World, was leading a panel discussion on wines from Spain. When the subject turned to an aging issue on Gran Reservas from Rioja, Kevin searched the audience to find...

Although we Americans have difficulty pronouncing the words on German wine labels; The Mosel wine growing region is considered by many to be the defining region for Riesling. I think if you ask other winemakers, the resulting wines are the reason others in the world are inspired to produce Riesling...

Hermann Wiemer created one of the most important wineries in the United States. In the 1970s while pioneers of fine wine in California were creating an international sensation that exploded with Steven Spurrier's tasting in Paris, Hermann Wiemer was very quietly creating excitement with selected vineyard sites around Seneca Lake...

America's suburbs rarely support extremes of anything. Certainly, in the restaurant business, suburban restaurants are generally safely themed and executed. So, when a chef like James Beard award winner Michael Ginor opened his personal cuisine restaurant, Lola, in Great Neck in September 2009, I got involved and waited to see...

When I met with Pierrette Trichet, the Cellar Master for the House of Remy Martin, I could not help but be impressed by her intelligence and elegance as well as a steely determination. She needed every bit of that steely determination for she is not only the only female...

Everything about Paumanok Vineyards is impressive. Paumanok, owned by the Massoud family, is a winery that owns all of their vineyards, and estate bottles all of their wines. This is an important element of the process, because it enables them to control the grape growing from beginning...

Yesterday, I was caught a little off guard by a seemingly easy question.

"What are the current trends in wine?"

I thought about it, and realized my answer is not just a country and a grape varietal. My answer mirrors many categories outside of the wine...

Joe Dressner, a top wine importer, and one of the leading voices for non-manipulated or "un-spoofulated" wines, has recently passed away from brain cancer at the age of 60. His Louis/Dressner portfolio of wines (He was a partner with his wife,Denyse Louis, and Kevin McKenna) is one of the...

South Africa might not be at the top of the obvious list for culinary destinations, but there are a lot of reasons why you might want to rethink that list.

Peter Tempelhoff, currently the Executive Chef overseeing the five Relais Chateaux restaurants within "The Collection by Liz...

We are very fortunate to live in a time when most of the wine produced in the world is good. Good in the sense of being correctly made, and palatable. For many consumers, that is just fine. I understand the sentiment. I want to own a car that is...

In a city as competitive as New York, small wine distributors flood the marketplace. At first glance, this situation may seem counter-intuitive to the distribution consolidation that has taken place around the United States. The New York market, as well as much of the Northeast, has always been driven by...

Some of Hong Kong's greatest culinary talent will be on display this weekend at the 29th Annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. The Hong Kong Tourism Bureau has brought the considerable talents of two restaurants that have achieved the rarified prestige of two Michelin stars.

Executive Chef...

Peter M.F. Sichel, an iconic name in the wine industry, led no ordinary life. Born in 1922 in Mainz Germany, Peter was born into a family of wine merchants, which he is the fourth generation. At the outbreak of World War II, he along with his family members fled...

This is a story of history, both ancient and recent, geography, family struggle, loss, tragedy, and redemption. Somewhere woven into this Biblical story, about this Biblical place, is the Ghosn's family story, that takes place in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. Sami Ghosn describes his childhood, and the radical twist...

1) Wine criticism and the internet | Wine information in the U.S. until the past 10 years came primarily from two sources: Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate and The Wine Spectator. There were certainly other publications in the market, but these two had a stranglehold on influencing the buying patterns...

If timing is everything, then Bruce Neyers entered the wine industry with impeccable timing. The 1970s brought about a re-birth to California wine, and headed it in a direction that would soon be in the mix with the great wines of Europe. Bruce, with a scientific academic background, curious mind...

What is an artisanal wine, and what are the factors that are necessary to call a wine artisanal? I posed this question to five wine industry leaders. I think what is interesting is although there are factors that certainly can be agreed upon, most of that agreement would be...

How many times have you gone into a restaurant to see a cookie cutter wine list, that is almost a duplicate of the next hundred restaurants in the same locale? This is not an accident. Some wine distributor has taken over the burden of writing the wine list, to...

Joel Peterson is a man who recognizes his good fortune. He is a spiritual man, with a love of the arts, a sense of humor, a sense of history, and an appreciation of beauty. He is humble, and recognizes when he started, back in 1976, that along with his wit,...

Just a few years ago, before the economic meltdown of 2008, there seemed to be a barrier between wine as a part of our eating culture, and wine as a central prop for having the right "label" to show off. Today, there is more pride than ever in...