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...
08.31.2011 Uncategorized Wine Column: Challenges of the ‘heartbreak grape’ When wine grapes were first planted on Long Island in the 1970s and ’80s, most growers chose to plant the most important grape varieties of France, including chardonnay and...
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...
06.05.2011 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,...
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...