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...
08.12.2011 Uncategorized Recipe of the Week from our Long Island Wine Press blog Chef Noah Schwartz shared this recipe for bouillabaisse, a hearty fish and shellfish stew, traditionally flavored with tomatoes, onions, garlic, white wine, and saffron on our LI wine press...
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,...
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...