Stu Nudelman
Born Stuart Eric Nudelman in Bronx, NY. Son of famed NY
Artist/Sculptor, Allen Nudelman and Homemaker/School Administrator
Arlene Nudelman. Moved to Spring Valley, NY in 1967, where he spent
most of his formative years. During his pre-adolescent, he learned he
had an ear for music. His father, grandmother and aunt all sang at
family functions. Stu would listen to them sing and attempt to
accompany them on his grandmothers' upright piano in Brooklyn,NY. As a
young child, he would entertain his parents friends by imitating TV
characters. With his older sister, Marla, he would read the phone book
imitating Chevy Chase as a news anchor. In Junior High, a friend who
played guitar, taught Stu how to play bass guitar, and they would play
in a short lived band. During his high school ,on a lark, he performed
stand up comedy for his first time, when an emcee asked if anyone
wanted to come up. Always doing impressions, Sly Stallone, Kermit The
Frog, Ronald Reagan, Tony Danza, he got up and did an impression of
Kermit The Frog on acid, and got his first laughs. Stu got the bug to
perform onstage from that point forward. At 22, he took a cross country
road trip with two friends to Los Angeles to chase his dream of acting.
He worked for Circuit City in Los Angeles to pay the bills, and studied
acting for commercials. Performed Standup at the Kosmic Cafe in
Hollywood. Lived in Malibu for a while in a geodesic dome with three
other friends from NY, one of whom was his JR high pal who taught him
bass guitar. After two years of no luck in the LA music scene, or
acting, he came home to NY, and pursued working in the TV and Film
industry. He worked random jobs for Paramount Studios and Post
Production facilities as a tape operator and in editing TV. He worked
different sales jobs in NYC, and eventually paired his love of music
and sales working for a company that was eventually bought by Warner
Music. The company was based in Miami, and he moved to South Florida.
During a business trip to Northern California in the mid 90's, tried
his first "real glass of Cabernet", liked it and in the mid millennium
changed from the music industry into the wine industry. Since then, he
can be heard on his global radio show "Wine Talk with Stu The Wine
Guru", which went from a national to a global show after it's first
three months of being on the air back in 2009. He then went back to his
love of Television, but now being in front of the camera on such shows
as CNBC Worlds' "Wine Portfolio" PBS's "Check Please" NBC's "Today in
South Florida" and Hosting a segment on NBC's "Nonstop Foodies" Many
internet shows, such as " Midlife Roadtrip Show" and "Keywest Kitchen"
and Internationally on RAI TV in Italy in a segment shot at the South
Beach Food and Wine festival. He's a Contributing Wine Editor for
different magazines such as "Simply The Best" and "Hollywood Circle
Magazine" and has offered wine reviews for "HelloVino Smartphone App"
and many wine industry internet portals.