02.04.2012 Community Wine column: A Valentine’s wine list for pet lovers Valentine’s Day is a delicious day to celebrate love. For those who have been blessed with a charming and romantic partner, it’s not difficult to find a way to...
01.22.2012 Community Wine Column: Wineries are warming up for winter Twenty years ago, Long Island’s wineries went into virtual hibernation during the winter months. Visitors who ventured here might find shuttered doors with a shivering winemaker behind them, or...
12.17.2011 Community Wine Column: Add these wines to your Christmas list Every year in early December, the Wine Media Guild of New York’s monthly luncheon tasting features prestige cuvée Champagnes, the best of the best French Champagnes. This is always...
12.02.2011 Community Wine Column: Wines that might make you say ‘yes’ While I was leafing through the December issue of Food & Wine magazine, an image of a pretty Gwyneth Paltrow lookalike in an ad for Rutherford Hill Napa Valley...
11.20.2011 Community Wine Column: Time to give thanks and take a time-out For the past few years, I have tried various alternatives to turkey for my Thanksgiving dinner. It’s not that I don’t like turkey, but I don’t love it, and...
10.27.2011 Uncategorized Wine Column: Moravian wines catch up with history When Moravian wines took top gold medals this year at the prestigious San Francisco International Wine Competition, most people had to run to a map to locate Moravia, at...
10.09.2011 Uncategorized Wine column: Vintage challenges, here and abroad For Long Island’s vintners, the vintage of 2011 has been one of the most difficult in 30 years. Beginning with a fierce winter that made pruning vines in drifting...
09.26.2011 Uncategorized Wine Column: Charitable giving can come at a cost In a recent wine quiz I included a question about the change in State Liquor Authority regulations regarding how many charities a New York farm winery may support with...