Drink Local
Robin ShreevesJournalist and Wine Pro Robin Shreeves dives into wine, cider, spirits & beer, the people and places that produce them, and traveling to where they're made whether it's 10 minutes from her home or halfway around the world.
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East Coast Wine News: September 18, 2026
Pennsylvania’s Penns Woods Winery is the run for Wine Enthusiast’s American Winery of the Year
Apologies for no news last week. I didn’t get to write it up before heading up to the Hudson Valley last weekend for the Hudson Valley Wine Comp...
2026 Hudson Valley Wine Competition Winners
The top medal winners at the 2026 Hudson Valley Wine Competition.
Last weekend, Ray and I drove up to New York’s Hudson Valley for what’s become an annual weekend getaway. For about four hours of that weekend each year, I head to the Huds...
Wine of the Week: Meadowbrook Winery Press Cut Pétillant Naturel
Ray and I spent last weekend in Lenox, Massachusetts. We went up for the Jason Isbell concert at Tanglewood, and the venue permits you to bring your own food and drinks and set up a picnic right on the lawn.
We stopped into Rubiner’s Chee...
East Coast Wine News: September 4, 2026
Chatham Vineyards’ Church Creek Chardonnay, a wine with “merroir,” according to Wine Enthusiast. (And a personal fave of mine that’s the perfect complement to a low country boil.)
Heading away for the weekend, so we’re getting right to the...
East Coast Wine News: August 28, 2026
Pennsylvania’s Black River Farms in the Lehigh Valley is ending wine production, but keeping the farm. (Tired last night when I wrote this, I accidentally wrote the wrong name of this winery in this caption- I was close, but the email that...
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