Adam Skolnick

BBC.com – January 2012 It never takes long before people realize that Oporto (known to locals as Porto) is an extraordinary city. Perhaps they will be standing along the Douro River in Villa Nova de Gaia – the neighbourhood built and sustained by fortified port wine — captivated by the way Portugal’s second largest city [...]

Affluent Magazine - January 2007 Mark Andrew Oliver, the Executive Chef at the exclusive Carrington Golf Resort in New Zealand, is no ordinary chef. He once quit a fine dining gig to sweat for three months in the galley of an Antarctic fishing boat where he served hundreds of exhausted fishermen three meals a day, just for [...]

Affluent Magazine - July 2006 For 225 years Veuve Clicquot has made us fall in love, one sip at a time. Nearly as pink as it’s label, the new Veuve Clicquot Rosé tumbles into her flute, and she’s already giggling. The mere mention of champagne – the real stuff, the kind picked and pressed and reserved in [...]

A quick reminder to all fellow wanderers that if you are in any major American or European city and forgot the guidebook at home, check out Party Earth. Based out of Los Angeles, this start-up has more than quadrupled in size in the last year. They offer objective and detailed tips on dining, drinking, sports [...]

On Air Magazine – March 2007 It hit me as I traversed the sinuous toll-road that hugs the cliffs south of Tijuana.  Though I’d driven Baja California a dozen times, I had never once enjoyed a glass of wine here. Baja’s spectacular beaches practically scream for cerveza. But I’d recently heard about Las Brisas del Valle, [...]

If you travel to the southern end of the Inner Hebrides archipelago in Scotland, you’ll find a rocky, windswept isle with more than 130 miles of spectacular coastline, huge communities of otters, seals and marine birds, and 3,500 people who love their Scotch whiskey. And they should. After all, their island’s name, Islay, is synonymous with single malt production, and whiskey is the hub of the local economy.