Archive for May, 2012
Images From the Last Great Saturday* of 2010 in the Finger Lakes
By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor *Editor's Note: Title subject to change based on whims of nature My wife and I spent a peripatetic day racing down one side of Cayuga Lake, then through Ithaca, then up Seneca Lake and ba...
A Killer Pairing: the Ladies of Old Toad Pub are Rocking the Rochester Beer Scene
By Julia Burke, Beer Editor Quick — name the perfect pairing for a “deconstructed English breakfast” of fried pork belly, roasted bangers, chive scrambled eggs on toast, a slow-roasted tomato and stuffed mushroom. Hav...
The Judgment of Riverhead, November 20 at Roanoke Vineyards
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Next Saturday, Roanoke Vineyards will host "The Judgment of Riverhead" a tasting that is modeled, quite obviously, after "The Judgment of Paris." Top wines from California ...
Middle Ages Brewing Company Blackheart Stout
By Julia Burke, Beer Editor When I asked the beer goddesses at The Old Toad pub in Rochester what to pair with my gorgeous blue cheese, bacon and onion-ring-topped burger, they didn't hesitate. "Blackheart Stout!"...
The New York Cork Report Tasting Table — November 10, 2010
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor These are a some wines that have crossed the NYCR tasting table recently but will not be reviewed as part of a standalone post. As always, these are transcribed almost directly from my noteboo...
Elaine Hazlitt Passes Away
By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor The Finger Lakes wine industry lost a major and beloved figure when Elaine Hazlitt passed away last Friday at the age of 70. Hazlitt and her husband Jerry founded ...
Shinn Estate Vineyards 2007 Wild Boar Doe
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Over the next several weeks, our editors will be tasting and re-tasting a slew of wines released during the 2010 calendar year for potential inclusion in our 2010 Wines of the Year tasting sch...
What We Drank (November 9, 2010)
Here's what our editors and contributors were drinking last week… Evan Dawson: Ravines Wine Cellars 2007 Meritage I have now opened this wine on three separate occasions, and it has been three distinctly different win...
Ellicottville Brewing Company EVL Amber
By Julia Burke, Beer Editor An amber is always great for late fall, so I picked up a growler of this southwestern New York brew (labelled "German Red" at the store and not to be confused with EBC's new German stei...
Crowded (Wine) House? New Hector Wine Company Aims to Fit Right In
By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor Every now and then, it's important to hear voices that dispute the conventional wisdom, that attack a meme, that detonate groupthink with all the subtlety of a tractor trailer crash. Ente...
