Having survived a Long Island upbringing I ended up as a wine writer. Like many others before me I started out on Carmel Extra Sweet, then onto Lancers and then hit the harder, better, truer stuff. My wine writing career was accidental. My wine education is wholly alternative. I was studying for a Masters in Dance Therapy in Cambridge. My roommate was seriously into wine and we had weekly tastings. My method was to super-taste my way through the line-up so I could spend the evening with the wine I liked best before anyone else got there. A few years down the pike I knew something about wine and there was no going back. Presently my most pressing gig has been finishing up my book for Harcourt entitled, The Battle for Love and Wine as well as traveling the world's vineyards to make sure I keep the edge on my knowledge, especially about the organic, biodynamic and natural wine movements.

I’ve been published in most of the glossies in this country as well as the New York Times. I snarked up a James Beard award for a wine piece I wrote for the New York Times business section on the many ways wine can be manipulated. When I’m not on the road, or doing something involved with wine (which by the way, has invaded my dream life) I am working on my personal writing, and probably sitting in the corner rereading Letting Go or Hudson River Bracketed, trying to learn how to play the melodeon and dreaming about a cellar full of Domaine Romanée Conti. Or at least a bottle or three.