07.11.2023 Community Celebration honors wine industry pioneers In 1973, Louisa and Alex Hargrave planted grapes in the sandy soil of an old Cutchogue potato farm, forever changing the North Fork’s landscape, economy and culture. To celebrate...
02.25.2017 Columns Guest Column: The positive impact of the North Fork’s wine industry The first day in 1973 that my then-husband, Alex, and I arrived on the farm we’d bought in Cutchogue, on Long Island’s North Fork, to plant the region’s first...
08.14.2015 Editorials Editorial: After 350 Hargrave wine columns, a changing of the grapes Over the course of the past 15 years, Louisa Hargrave has written more than 350 columns for this newspaper. For much of that time, her column has also been...
07.03.2014 Columns Hargrave Column: Remembering the Borgheses The tragic loss of Ann Marie and Marco Borghese has all of us who knew them reeling. My heart weeps for their family.
01.18.2013 Food and Drink Forty years ago, a young couple started a region The Long Island Wine Council celebrated its 40th anniversary Thursday night at Raphael Vineyards in Peconic. The North Fork wine industry began when Louisa and Alex Hargrave took a...