Posts Written OnJuly 28, 2005

Take the LENNDEVOURS User and NY Wine Interest Survey

Online surveys are nothing new. Look most anywhere on the Internet and you’re bound to find a survey of one sort or another. And recently, blogs like Fermentations and Vinography have started using them to understand their readers better and gather non-personal information about them…all in the interest of providing you, the blog reader, with better content. Well, LENNDEVOURS is entering the fray with its first survey, the LENNDEVOURS Reader and NY Wine Interest Survey. It is my hope that by simply asking you, my readers, what you like, dislike and would like to see more of in these pages,…

A Visit to the Long Island Meadery

Honey wine, better known in some circles as mead, is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages in the world — dating back thousands of years and pre-dating both beer and wine (grape wine that is). But despite it’s long history, mead remains a relative unknown among "serious" wine drinkers, often thought of as a beverage consumed solely by people at medieval reenactments and festivals. While it’s true that mead is the drink of choice at such events, it’s an increasingly popular choice for people living in 2005 as well. Search the Internet, and you can find literally hundreds (maybe thousands)…