A Northern Wine Odyssey

So you've got your home bar up and running and you're shaking drinks like it's 2021 -- oh wait, it is! And dry January is over! 

In this episode host Paul Brady and sommelier and bartender Jad Kamal rap about how to take your home bartending skills to the next level: when to shake; when to stir; what's already in your pantry that can also be in your drinks; and more...

In this episode, I speak with Miguel de Leon, Beverage Director and General Manager of Pinch Chinese, in Manhattan New York. We get into the sommelier profession and how it existed in the pre-2008 recession, how it bounced back, and how the future might look for wine professionals and consumers in restaurants.

In week's episode,  I spoke to my friend and former colleague from the trenches of New York City wine bars, Sagan Schultz. Sagan is a medical doctor and has an MBA both from NYU. He’s also a sommelier, certified nutritionist, and personal trainer – perfect for the subject of dry January, and health and wellness in the wine industry in general.

This podcast is presented by Cork Report Media (http://thecorkreport.us/)

In this episode of his Northern Wine Odyssey podcast, host Paul Brady talks to his friend Amber Rill, who is the assistant beverage director at Corkbuzz Wine Studio in Manhattan NY, where she also oversees consumer and private wine classes.

Corkbuzz is an amazing venue for wine education, and recently Amber and I were able to join a seminar on New York wines moderated by Kevin Zraly, who is the author of the No. 1 selling wine book in the world, Windows On the World. Kevin was also the sommelier at the restaurant Windows On The World at The World Trade Center in Manhattan up until September 11, 2001, and luckily for all, he was not there on that tragic day. Kevin is also a celebrated wine educator having taught his classes to thousands in the New York City area throughout his career.

So this is Amber and I shooting the shit on Christmas eve, of 2020, reflecting on Kevin’s seminar, wine education, jobs in the wine education sphere, and New York wines.

We’re back on the subject of going after jobs in the wine industry this week, with our guest New York City-based sommelier-turned-full-time writer, Courtney Schiessl. Courtney has been published in SevenFifty Daily, Wine Enthusiast, VinePair, Forbes.com, The SOMM Journal, The Tasting Panel Magazine, Beverage Media, Wine-Searcher.com, ESPN, and more. 

This chat sincerely inspired me, as I realized that I've pretty much been able to watch Courtney grow into the professional that she is today almost from the beginning, which genuinely warmed my heart, and these days we all need a bit of that. If you know anyone in the restaurant industry who is currently unemployed and has wine expertise, we hope you’ll share this series with them and also check in with us for more content on wine journalism, trade and consumer education, and industry jobs.

This podcast is presented by Cork Report Media (http://thecorkreport.us/)

For this episode of the Nothern Wine Odyssey, we say goodbye to one of the great New York City jazz clubs, The Jazz Standard, which had a fantastic program for domestic wines including those from New York and my home state of Michigan. 

Guests: Grant Gardner, sommelier and longtime manager of the club, and jazz saxophonist and a frequent performer at the club, Jon Irabagon.

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For this episode of "Press Fraction" Lenn Thompson provides a short introduction and then you can hear the audio replay of a virtual tasting he hosted for the New York Wine & Grape Foundation on sparkling wines. 

The full video is also available -- along with a lot of other seminars -- on the NYWGF's YouTube Channel. 

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For this episode of the Nothern Wine Odyssey podcast, Cork Report contributor Paul Brady speaks with Gina Shay who works in Business Development at Tonnellerie Cadus oak barrels and serves as the Vice President of the Michigan Wine Collaborative, on the subject of going after jobs in the wine industry.

This podcast is presented by Cork Report Media (http://thecorkreport.us/)

For the debut episode of the Nothern Wine Odyssey podcast, Cork Report contributor Paul Brady speaks to Beverage Journalist and Washington State Wine Commission Director of Marketing David Flaherty on the subject of "the opening process," as Brady works to open a New York heavy wine shop and bar in Beacon, NY.

This podcast is presented by Cork Report Media (http://thecorkreport.us/)

In this second, not-all-that-controversial MOaF (my opinion as fact) episode, I talk about how you can help your local wineries right now and help announce the first-ever "Open That Bottle of Local Wine Night."

A real episode is coming. I promise.