Archive for May, 2012
Anthony Nappa Wines 2008 Anomaly
By Lenn Thompson, Publisher and Editor When Anthony Nappa, winemaker at Shinn Estate Vineyards, interviewed for the job, he had two questions of his own for the owners, could he bring his dog to work, and could he make his own ...
Is Southold Holding up Wind Power at Shinn Estate Vineyards?
By Lenn Thompson, Publisher and Editor I hope that we can all agree that alternative energy sources are a good thing — and that they are a large part of our future. Things like solar and wind power can, and will, reduce o...
Holding Back: the 2009 Riesling Rendezvous
By Jason Feulner, Finger Lakes Correspondent Last year, at the 2008 Riesling Rendevouz event at the beautiful New York Wine and Culinary Center, I had the distinct pleasure of tasting a great many 2007 rieslings. In fact, few o...
When a Song Tastes Like a Riesling. Finger Lakes Riesling.
By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes CorrespondentPhotos by Jason Feulner, Finger Lakes Correspondent Something special happened Friday night at the New York Wine Wine & Culinary Center, and the effects are likely to echo for a lon...
Billsboro Winery 2007 Dry Riesling
By Lenn Thompson, Publisher and Editor May is Riesling Month in the Finger Lakes, but somehow this is my first Finger Lakes riesling review this month. Look for more riesling reviews this week and next (I'm tasting a lot of...
New Blog of Note: Wine Conscience
For a variety of reasons, I don't read nearly as many wine blogs as I used to. For one, there are seemingly dozens of new wine blogs popping up very month. There are the good, the bad and the ugly of course, so not all of t...
TasteCamp 2009: An Interview with Becky Borichevsky
Becky Borichevsky, who is better known in some circles as Taster B, is our TasteCamp interviewee this Monday morning. Becky started Smells Like Grape with her husband Steve (Taster A) in 2007 to document their exploration of wi...
TasteCamp 2009: An Interview with John Witherspoon
The TasteCamp interviews continue today with John Witherspoon, a blogger I met last fall at the 2008 Wine Bloggers Conference. He publishes Anything Wine from his home in Richmond, Virginia, and it's a highly appropriate na...
Video from the 5th Annual Hudson Valley Wine Competition
My friend Debbie, better known as the Hudson Valley Wine Goddess, has posted a video from the Hudson Valley Wine Competition that I judged a few weeks ago. My ugly mug appears a few times and she gives a little peek into the in...
TasteCamp 2009: An Interview with Remy Charest
I keep forgetting to mention that TasteCamp EAST 2009 was actually an international wine-tasting event… thanks to today's interviewee, Remy Charest. While doing a gazillion other things, Remy began writing about wine ...
