07.19.2011 Business LIRR now features Friday wine train to the North Fork Long Island Rail Road passengers boarding the Greenport-bound train from the Ronkonkoma station Friday nights now see a menu on their seat offering refreshments for purchase during the long...
06.20.2011 Uncategorized Wine Column: A lesson on the ABCs of chardonnay Last year, Americans spent $2,026,986,920 in retail shops on chardonnay, making it by far the most popular white wine variety on the market. The dollar value of the next...
06.14.2011 Multimedia Winemakers Studio: A tasting room for wines without a home Remember that wine you enjoyed last weekend but couldn’t find a tasting room for? Well, soon it could be available at the Winemakers Studio on Peconic Lane in Peconic,...
06.05.2011 Uncategorized Wine Column: New varieties add spice on North Fork In my last column, I wrote about Champagne vigneron Philippe Brun and his ironic take on being a “pirate” farmer. On a drive around his grand cru vine plots,...
06.01.2011 Opinion Guest Spot: Selling wine at supermarkets could help save farming It’s hard to think of something more evocative of summer than one of our local farm stands. After all, Suffolk County ranks No. 1 in the market value of...
05.26.2011 News Thousands of wine bottles collect dust while labels await federal approval Vintners spends months, if not years, perfecting the wines they bottle and sell, and somewhere near the end of that process, they attach a label to let the public...
05.24.2011 Uncategorized Wine Column: Grape farmers are anything but dumb In a current television ad for Ocean Spray cranberry juice, a young man standing in a cranberry bog in rubber waders plays out the stereotype of a hick farmer...
05.15.2011 Business VIDEO: Want to make your own wine at home? Jim Waters, 22-year winemaker and owner of Waters Crest Winery in Cutchogue, demonstrates in this video how to make two and a half cases of red wine in your...