Wine Column Archives - Riverhead News Review

08.03.2012 Community

Wine Column: When keeping it simple is simply better

The marked difference between the way Americans and Europeans experience wine became apparent to me when I first attended VinItaly, Europe’s biggest wine trade fair, in 1997. Unlike the...

07.19.2012 Community

Wine Column: The barrel can make all the difference

On June 28, I attended a tasting for winemakers sponsored by Bouchard Cooperages, representing French tonnelleries (cooperages) Cadus, Damy, Vicard and Canadell. This tasting demonstrated subtleties in flavor and...

06.08.2012 Community

Wine Column: Time to smell the roses … and rosés

It’s June again, the glorious “days of wine and roses.” As a winemaker and wine educator, I’m often asked if rosé wines are really made from roses. It’s understandable...

04.08.2012 Community

Wine Column: A taste of Europe in Argentina’s wines

Chile and Argentina are both defined by their shared border of the Andes Cordillera, that jagged mountain chain that runs down the spine of southern South America and affects...

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...

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