Brian Freedman

About the Author Brian Freedman

Brian Freedman is a food, wine, spirits, beer, and travel writer, restaurant and beverage consultant, drinks educator, and event host and speaker. He is a contributing writer for John Mariani’s Virtual Gourmet and Philadelphia Style Magazine, and restaurant critic and beverage columnist for Philadelphia Weekly, Sub-urban Life Magazine, and Philadelphia Life Magazine, and contributes to many others. Brian’s writing has been published internationally, nationally, and locally, and he has appeared on television on Fox 29’s “Good Day Philadelphia,” Comcast’s “Your Morning on CN8,” ABC7’s “View From The Bay” in San Francisco, NBC4’s “Weekend Today in New York,” CBS2’s “The Couch” in New York, and the nationally syndicated “Better Show.” He also discussed wine live on-air in Galicia, Spain, and on “Cooking Today” on Martha Stewart Living Radio, SiriusXM.


A Trip to South Africa Part 2 Drink Me Magazine
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A Week in South Africa: Pt. 2

Continued from A Week in South Africa: Part 1 Too many consumers still associate South African wine far too exclusively with Pinotage among reds and Chenin Blanc among whites. And while these two highly successful grape varieties of course play an important part in the national wine industry, they are …

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South Africa Part 1 Drink ME Magazine
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A Week in South Africa: Pt. 1

It’s impossible to overstate the sheer physical grandeur of South Africa, the beauty of the scenery that, at various moments throughout the day, forces you to stop in your tracks, look around, and catch your breath: The sweep of a sky speckled with birds wheeling overhead; the variously jagged and …

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Vodka Honesty

My evening had been going well—nothing life-changing, mind you, but this first night at Revel, the two-billion-dollar boondoggle in Atlantic City, was chugging along pleasantly. Decent dinner, personable company, new hotel. And then I saw it: Behind the bar at one of the many venues there at which one may, …

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