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About Wine About the Weather

I’m so appreciative to those who ask me about the show and say, “how did you come up with the idea?”  To me, it’s a compliment and I’m always happy to talk about it.

This is a show about New York wines…the weather that makes them, the regions they come from and the food that goes best with them.

It started as a grand plan to write some episodes about pairing wine with food and weather, 3 of my favorite things.  I wrote out the concept of the show and even wrote 15 episodes featuring wine all around the US in the hopes the Food Network or the Travel Channel would pick it up.  I even met with an agent in New York about it, but he didn’t quite get what I was trying to do.  After exhausting whatever few contacts I had and cold-emailing agents to no avail, I put the idea on the shelf.

In 2012, Governor Cuomo and New York State started to really push the state’s craft beverage industry, making it easier for folks to obtain licenses and awarding grants through the Taste NY Initiative to promote what New York has to offer.  All the while, wine quality in New York was getting stronger and stronger.  The state had gone from your granddad’s sweet jug wines to making some world class Rieslings.  Farmers have been growing grapes for a long time but after the New York Farm Winery Act of 1976, they were able to establish wineries and sell their wines directly to the public.  The farmers know what they are doing and with the harsh weather that New York can bring, they have some creative ways, both man made and natural, of mitigating that weather to the benefit of us wine drinkers.

I thought, “Well shoot, I can do this show in New York!”  The state is so diverse in its geography and regions, I am a born and raised New Yorker, so why not?

I’ll be visiting wineries and vineyards all around this beautiful state from the 1000 Islands to Lake Erie, and from the Finger Lakes to Long Island and anyplace else in between.  There are many products that are among the best of their kind on the planet produced here, and any chance I get to showcase them, I will.

Come with me to the oldest winery in the US, taste a chocolate that a world-renowned chocolatier has on his top ten list, do some world class fishing, try a sea salt that is shipped far and wide, and cook with a butter that is one hot commodity.

Wine About the Weather.  Then Drink It!

What is Wine About the Weather?

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About Jason Gough

Jason Gough started cooking when he was ten years old.  He took a baking class at his elementary school and has been hooked ever since.

Jason’s continuing process of learning how to cook and prep has seen many phases.  Through his teens, he worked as a dishwasher in a popular neighborhood restaurant.  He learned how to make pizza and dinners, but more importantly how to prep and save food for quick-to-prepare meals.  He also started his bartending “career” there.

When Jason turned 21, he started to work at a restaurant in his beloved college town of Auburn, Alabama.  He was a lead server and bartender for 2 years before he moved on to another restaurant where he also took on the duties of manager.  His boss, also the owner and chef, was self-taught and came up with creative features daily for his restaurant.  Jason learned a lot from his former boss not only in terms of creating dishes, but perfecting the old ones.  It was here that Jason learned to grill over hardwood and he has been a self-described ‘old-school purist’ ever since.

Jason then moved to the Washington, DC area to further his studies in meteorology at the University of Maryland.  To support himself, he worked at a fine dining restaurant adjacent to the famed Willard Hotel and 200 yards from the White House.  While he worked there as a lead server and bartender, he attended lessons and seminars on food and wine and was trained to answer any questions a guest might have.  He learned the many fine points of cooking from talented chefs and sous-chefs as well as how to taste and pair wine from the restaurant’s many purveyors.  He also served two US Presidents and over fifty celebrities from sports to politics to actors from stage & screen during his experiences there.

Jason graduated with a degree in meteorology and has been on the air for fourteen years.  In addition to his meteorological duties, he has hosted over fifty cooking segments and he has cooked on air…everything from New England Clam Chowder to Steak Tuscan to an entire Thanksgiving dinner.  He also promoted his award-winning Kids Café cookbook to help children in Texas get healthy food as well as tutoring after school.  Other mornings, he simply cooked breakfast (on air) for the morning crew in between his weather segments.

He has cooked Thanksgiving dinner every year since his mid 20s, and continues to get phone calls and text messages from friends and family to pick his brain about a menu idea or how to best prepare any random dish.  Jason loves every minute of it.

Jason is about shopping smart and prepping smart–to save time, money and calories.  He has organic vegetable and herb gardens, which supply him with homemade marinara, pesto and home-grown herbs year round.

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Sundays at 9 am on WNYA, and Sundays at 11 am on WNYT

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