Posted in NYC Events, Wine on Jun 18th, 2014
The remnants of our two-hour Riesling master class with Paul Grieco and Stuart Pigott today for the full staff of Hearth & Terroir. 25 Rieslings. Awesome. The 7th (and final) Summer of Riesling is coming…
Posted in Spirits on May 16th, 2013
Cocktail experiments for the Manhattan Cocktail Classic at Hearth.
Posted in Wine on Apr 6th, 2012
Not a bad way for our staff to start the night at Hearth. Well-played, Matt Stinton.
Posted in NYC Events, Wine on Mar 13th, 2012
As part of our Hearth & Terroir all-hands-on-deck monthly Bordeaux tastings, the entire staff marched through the sunny streets of the East Village to gather in Hearth’s main dining room. It’s sort of like the pilgrims on Thanksgiving, but only with better wine. And no turkey. Oh, and no muskets. Well…maybe a few muskets. Today […]
Posted in NYC Events, Spirits on Mar 6th, 2012
Last week, Serious Eats: Drinks was kind enough to do a piece about our bar program at Hearth, specifically the focus I decided to shine on New York spirits. Click here to read the article (and be sure to view the kick-ass slideshow by Alice Gau). Since that fateful day six months ago, when I […]
Posted in Wine on Oct 27th, 2011
Mannie Berk of the Rare Wine Co. held a wee little Madeira dinner tonight at Hearth—and by “wee” I mean the “sickest line-up of old wines I’ve ever beheld in person.” I stood by somewhat slack-jawed as he pulled these incredibly old bottles out of his knapsack like a kid unloads his lunch box and […]
Posted in NYC Events on Jul 14th, 2011
His gaze tightened, his cheek twitched as a surge of energy shot through his body. In a moment, he was off. Through the side door of our dining room, farmer and sustainable agriculture guru, Bev Eggleston, charged like a bull out of the gate in Pamplona. A man had stolen a pig leg out of […]
As we wind our way through the beer roads of Belgium, I must take a moment to pay homage to my colleagues back in NYC. While we’re chasing down the treasures of the Trappist monks and meeting the ambient yeasts of Brussels’ Lambics, they’re gearing up to light the Olympic torch tonight for the greatest […]
Oude Geuze (lambic), Drie Fonteinen, Belgium (6.5% abv) Last night, one of my co-workers asked me what my favorite beer on our list is. I was paralyzed. Whoa, choose one? But these are my babies and they’re all unique in their own way! How could I possibly zero it down to one? I felt like […]
Posted in Beer, NYC Events on Oct 23rd, 2010
I was flattered yesterday to receive a wee bit of press on Eater.com for all my beer geeking & drinking. Aren’t you proud of me, Mom? Here’s a link to the piece by Greg Morabito which details my current sudsy work at Hearth Restaurant and the two Terroir wine bars: “Hearth’s Resident Beer Geek, David […]
Posted in Wine on Apr 7th, 2010
Leflaive. Palacios. Joly. DRC. The list of heavy-hitter winemakers who’ve embraced Biodynamic farming goes on and on. In fact, if I had an ever-ticking stopwatch like the one at Union Square, it just might accurately reflect the number of biodynamic wineries popping up each day. I recently had a piece published on Palate Press entitled, […]
