A wine blog by Susannah Gold
I had the pleasure of attending a seminar on Thursday at Maslow 6 in Tribeca. The wine shop where I have worked a bit over the past year is one of my favorites in the City and not because it is owned by a friend but because it is warm and inviting, has a friendly... Continue Reading →
As the year draws to a close, I try to create a balance sheet of how I have fared, personally, professionally, wineally during the previous year. As always, the year was full of surprises. One lovely surprise was finding a copy of one of my favorite poems in a pile on my desk. This poem... Continue Reading →
December 7th is always a strange day. On the one hand, I think of Pearl Harbor, the day that will live in infamy and how the USA got into World War II and all that that meant and all the lives that were lost on this day. On the other, I think of my adopted... Continue Reading →
I got a great Hanukkah present today from a colleague. An introduction to the fabulous free radio website Pandora. I feel like a kid in a candy store or as if I got a wealth of Hanukkah Gelt (chocolate covered coins). I'm so excited and I am now working my way through the 1970s with... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow is a big holiday in Italy, Ferragosto, or the Assumption. This is a celebration of the Virgin Mary. All over Italy it is a day in which people relax, get out of town (una gita fuori porta), and have a big meal. Last year I arrived in Milan on Ferragosto on my way to... Continue Reading →
After many years of saying I was going to work part time in a wine shop, I'm finally doing it. The idea is to learn the business and understand it from the retailer's point of view rather than the journalist e/o public relations idea of sales. I also get to meet more people in the... Continue Reading →
Do you ever feel like that? So many tastings to go to, so many wines to try, so many varieties to learn. Sometimes the world of wine seems completely impossible to get your mind around. At least it does to me. Take today's opportunities - a wine tasting in the afternoon of wines from the... Continue Reading →
Maslow 6 did it again. There seems to be no stopping Keri and Mollie this fall at their new store in Tribeca. This time, not only did I get to try even more wines that tickled my fancy but I also got to feel good buying wine and contributing (10%) of the purchase price to... Continue Reading →
As a declared Italophile, I always feel somewhat guilty when I swoon for wines from a different country, even if that country is France which as readers of this blog know, was my first love. A couple of weeks ago I had the occasion to stop in at Maslow 6, a lovely wine shop run... Continue Reading →
