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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

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The Best Kosher Wines for Passover

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My cousin, Alice Feiring, wine critic and best selling author.
Alice Feiring, wine critic and best selling author.

Passover is almost here. We’re scrubbing Casa Avrech top to bottom, switching dishes and silverware, purchasing tons of kosher for Passover food, and shopping for new clothing.

And many are wondering which wines to buy for the Passover seders in which we are commanded to drink four cups of wine.

Seraphic Secret does not drink wine, nor imbibe liquor — ever. The reason? Drink leads to migraines that can flatten yours truly for days. Hence, I have nothing to say about wine.

However, I am well-connected.

Once again, Seraphic Secret has invited first cousin Alice Feiring, the award-winning author and wine critic to sample and recommend the best Passover wines on the market.

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My Cousin Alice: Wine Critic and Hurricane Hero

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Teaneck, New Jersey. There’s a car underneath that fallen tree. Photo by Offspring #2.

Seraphic Secret has not, so far, written about Hurricane Sandy (what a terrible name for such a devastating storm) because, frankly, we had nothing original to say. We all know that nature is pitiless, government services fail, and neighbors help neighbors while politicians pose and preen.

Seraphic Secret has one daughter in Teaneck and one in Queens. Both are okay, thank G-d.

We also have an elderly relative who lives in Long Beach, a beloved aunt. Aunt X is, um, kind of stubborn. So when the order to evacuate was given, she just hunkered down in her second-floor apartment, saying: “What do they know? This is my home. I’m staying.”

On the phone, before the storm hit, a concerned Seraphic Secret called Aunt X.

“You have to evacuate.”

“No.”

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