Archive for May, 2012
We Won’t Participate as Judges in Wine Competitions: Here’s Why
Just a few wines to be tasted at this years Indy International Wine Competition Photo courtesy of Dave Falchek It's official. We are done judging big, blind, medal-focused wine competitions. We did not arrive at this positi...
Freedom Run Winery 2007 Estate Pinot Noir
If Long Island has merlot and the Finger Lakes have riesling, then the Niagara U.S.A. region just might have pinot noir. It's of course way too early in this budding region's development to anoint any single grape as ro...
2010 Long Island Harvest is Underway: Pinot Noir for Sparkling Wine at Macari Vineyards
Photo courtesy of Kelly Urbanik, winemaker at Macari Vineyards
Reminder: Angelman Syndrome Benefit at Roanoke Vineyards, September 12
Don't forget about our Angelman Syndrome benefit at Roanoke Vineyards on September 12. You can learn more aobut Angelman Syndrome but there isn't a cure today and as with many other syndromes, diseases and disorders, th...
Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weiss
This is one of two collaboration beers between brewers Hans-Peter Drexler of legendary Bavarian brewery Schneider and Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster Garrett Oliver. The version with the Brooklyn label is widely available but I fou...
Op-Ed: Towns, Don’t Crush the Grape Growers (Ron Goerler, Jr. and Steve Bate, Long Island Wine Council)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…" The famous opening line from Charles Dickens' classic "A Tale of Two Cities," set in 18th-century Europe, would appear to be an appropriate de...
Blue Point Brews For the Birds
There's still at least one "BP" that isn't destroying the world. Blue Point Brewing Company, creators of multi-award-winning Toasted Lager, has responded to the Gulf oil spill disaster the best way they know h...
The Science of Biodynamics, Part 2: Moonstones OR Gravitas Vos Liberabit
The phases of a lunar eclipse, by tizianoj at Flickr A key tenet of biodynamics is the influence of celestial bodies (e.g., the sun, moon, and planets) on agriculture. While no one will deny the influence of the sun, it&...
Is This the Best Wine in New York State?
The 2010 Governor's Cup award did not go to a Long Island red, or a Finger Lakes riesling. It went to a sparkling riesling, and a sweet one at that. For the second time in three years, Swedish Hill Winery has captured the G...
This Might Be the Weirdest Wine List Ever
My wife and I had lunch at the Village Tavern in Hammondsport on Tuesday, and we encountered a mind-bending wine list. The Tavern is well known for its long selection of aged Finger Lakes wines. Lenn and I have both writ...
