The renowned New York City-based wine educator is pairing with LocalWineEvents.com, the world's leading online calendar of food, wine, beer and spirits events, to present a weekly wine quiz. Zraly-created questions will appear exclusively in The Juice, the e-mail newsletter and event calendar distributed by LocalWineEvents.com.
"Kevin is the preeminent wine educator in the United States, especially in New York City. We are thrilled to be working with someone of his caliber, sharing his wealth of knowledge with our readers," said Eric V. Orange, CEO and founder of LocalWineEvents.com. Zraly also welcomes the new partnership, saying: "Whether you are in New York, California or anywhere else, the best place to find out where quality wine events are happening is to go where I go -- LocalWineEvents.com."
Kevin Zraly worked at Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the World Trade Center, from its opening in 1976 until September 11, 2001. He is the founder and teacher of the immensely popular Windows on the World Wine School that has graduated almost 20,000 students since its inception. The classes are now held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square.
His book, Windows on the World Complete Wine Course, is the largest-selling wine book in the United States with over 3 million copies sold. Zraly's new book, The Ultimate Wine Companion (available November 2010), includes work from 40 of the world's best wine writers.
Honors awarded to Kevin Zraly include: 2009 Wine Professional of the Year from Sante, Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Wine Council, the James Beard Award as the Wine and Spirits Professional of the Year, the Food and Beverage Association’s Man of the Year Award, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Wine Educators, and the 2006 Wine Literary Award. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Culinary Institute of America.
Zraly's wine quiz questions will appear only in The Juice, a weekly e-mail from LocalWineEvents.com. The Juice also includes a wine-themed article and other features along with a calendar of upcoming events customized to the subscriber's location. Available free, by request only, The Juice has 125,000+ subscribers worldwide.
LocalWineEvents.com was created by wine industry veteran Eric Orange as a one-stop destination for foodies, wine and spirits enthusiasts, craft beer lovers and other consumers looking for information about upcoming food and drink events in their area -- anywhere in the world.
The website, which uses a post-it-yourself format for publicizing food, wine, beer and spirits events, has grown every year since its launch in 2000. Since then, restaurants, wineries, retailers and other food/drink professionals have posted nearly 300,000 events worldwide. Currently, about 1,500 food, wine, beer and spirits events are posted every week. LocalWineEvents.com has nearly 30,000 fans on Facebook.
