Archive for May, 2012
Long Island Wine Pioneer Ralph Pugliese Dies at 73
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor I just read on the Suffolk Times website that Ralph Pugliese, founder of Puglisese Vineyards, has died. He was 73. Here's the full story: "Ralph Pugliese, who co-founded Pugliese Vine...
TasteCamp North 2011: A Photo Diary
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor With TasteCamp North 2011 attendees, including most of the NYCR team, back home and pondering the stories that we'd all like to write — and they are numerous — I wanted ...
TasteCamp North Kicks Off Today
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor I know we haven't had a lot of new content here this week — but we have a reason. TasteCamp North kicks off today and there have been last-minute preparations, travel and other assor...
Run for the Roses in Long Island Wine Country in May
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor I received a press release from the Long Island Wine Council today about this year's Run for the Roses Festival and wanted to pass it along the list of participating wineries and the speci...
The NYCR and Luce & Hawkins Present… an Evening with Paul Dlugokencky, Blind Bat Brewery, May 23
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor For several years now, I've allowed an idea for a series of local beer, wine and spirit dinner macerate in my mind. I wanted them to be somehow different from the dinners already happening...
Lucas Vineyards 2009 Semi-Dry Riesling
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor When you're the winemaker at Lucas Vineyards, making nearly 30,000 cases of wine every year — with nearly 30 different bottlings — it's not easy to give each lot the attent...
Hunt Country Vineyards 2009 Valvin Muscat
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Valvin Muscat is a hybrid — known genetically as 62-122.01 — developed in the early 1960s at the Cornell Experimental Station in Geneva and was released commercially in 2006. It is...
Long Island Wineries to Launch “Wine Libraries” That Offer Enhanced Tasting Experiences
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor The Long Island wine community often overflows with more of the same — vineyard walks, mediocre music acts, tenuous food/chocolate pairing events, and the like. These activities clearly ...
