Hailing from Pennsylvania, Stephen Bitterolf left for New York to study art, eventually becoming an artist. His love and interest in wine brought him to wine retail and ultimately wine importation. Stephen is the creator of Rieslingfeier, a celebration of Riesling and the proprietor of vom Boden, a boutique wine...

Tune is for a "tasty" episode of In The Drink with guest Stephen Bitterolf, founder of Vomboden, a small winery based just outside of Alf in Germany. Vomboden exclusively uses grapes from local German growers. Stephen and host Joe Campanale discuss the German wine industry, organic farming, misunderstandings over sulphur...

What does it take to open a restaurant? This week on Snacky Tunes, Greg and Darin Bresnitz are joined in the studio by Thomas Carter and Ignacio Mattos. Thomas and chef Ignacio are in the process of opening a new restaurant on Houston Street called Estela that aims to focus...

Barbecue and wine? This week on Snacky Tunes, Greg and Darin Bresnitz are talking with Paul Grieco of Terroir and Hearth, and Daniel Delaney of BrisketLab, BrisketTown, and the new Smokeline. Listen in to hear Paul spread the good news of summer Riesling. Why do most people expect Riesling to...

This week on In the Drink, Joe Campanale is joined by Michelin star chefs Eduard Frauneder and Wolfgang Ban, Executive Chefs and owners of Edi & the Wolf and the soon-to-be opened chef inspired cocktail bar The Third Man in the East Village. Hear their perspective on German and Austrian...

Erin Fitzpatrick & Brian DiMarco are joined by Brian Smith, the owner/founder of Loca Linda. Brian talks about wine from Argentina and specifically, the Torrontes white wine grape. Tune in for an on-air tasting and find out more about conditioning, importing and the Famatina Valley. This episode was sponsored by...

Erin Fitzpatrick travels to Germany to bring us interviews with the country's leading winemakers, recorded around the Weinborse Fair, a German trade fair featuring two hundred leading VDP wine estates and their 2008 releases.