Boston Wine Week Begins Today

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Jessica Alpert

Clink! It’s the first annual Boston Wine Week.  Starting TODAY, participating restaurants (see the list HERE) will offer quality wines at discounted prices: $9.00/glass and $32.00/bottle.  The goal? To open diner’s eyes to the vast diversity and quality of wines available from around the globe.

And it goes beyond sipping…..you can learn a lot, too. The Second Glass’s Tyler Balliet will share his wisdom tonight at 6pm at Bina (free pizzette on offer!) and on Sept. 21, Richard Elia of the Quarterly Review of Wines will be at Bin 26 from 6-7 p.m., offering featured wines with paired cheeses.

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Can’t do anything until the end of the week? Join the Second Glass folks for a “classy bar crawl” at Downtown Crossing. The fun begins at 6pm.

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Associate Producer, Here & Now Most recently, Jessica worked as an associate producer at WBUR's daily local program, Radio Boston. Jessica moved to Boston in 2008 and has lived many places since leaving her native Texas. After graduating from college, Jessica worked as a federal employee, documentary film festival producer, oral historian, university teaching assistant, traveling saleswoman and klezmer musician. Her work and projects have appeared in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Bust, Barnard Magazine, National Public Radio, Public Radio International (PRI), and the BBC. Jessica's freelance radio work has received various awards including accolades from the Religion Newswriters Association and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. As a Fulbright Scholar in El Salvador, Jessica collected and studied oral histories from the Jewish Community based in San Salvador. Jessica received her B.A. in political science from Columbia University’s Barnard College and her M.A. in history from Indiana University. She learned how to make radio from the phenomenal folks at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Jessica lives in Somerville with her husband, twin son and daughter, and two cats. To learn more about Jessica’s projects, both current and past, please visit www.jessicaalpert.com.