Posts Written OnJuly 15, 2008

Ellen Watson Points Her Camera at Channing Daughters Winery

You might remember that last year, Ellen Watson, the East Hampton photographer who serves as the resident photographer for LENNDEVOURS, took a series of pictures at Wolffer Estate Vineyard. In the series, she chronicled a two specific rows of chardonnay as they changed throughout the seasons. The series is available online. This year, Ellen will be taking on a slightly different project for LENNDEVOURS at Channing Daughters Winery in Bridgehampton. Rather than following the evolution of two rows, she’ll be following the changes that three clusters of three different grape varieties make throughout the growing season. Specifically, she has identified…

Bouke 2007 White Table Wine (North Fork of Long Island)

There’s a lot to like about Bouke Wines, one of the North Fork’s newest wine producers. On first glance alone, the labels are clean, sleek and different from most local producers. Then, there’s founder Lisa Donneson. I met her for the first time at Brooklyn Uncorked and found her both passionate and charming. It doesn’t hurt that her wines are made by Gilles Martin, a genuninely nice guy who has been making wine on the North Fork for about 20 years.  In an email recently, Donneson told me that she wants to create "Wines that showcase the best of Long…

Can (and Should) Wine Critics Eschew the Subjective?

Anyone who has been reading wine blogs for a while knows about Vinography, the granddaddy of all wine blogs. It’s publisher, Alder Yarrow, is one of the wine blogosphere’s most thoughtful, talented people and this post from last week Subjectivity, Aesthetics, and the Evaluation of Wine is one that you should check out. After you read it, answer this question for me: What do you look for in a wine review? I try to balance the objective traits of a wine (color, aromas, flavors) with the type of subjective commentary that Alder argues cannot (and should not) be absent from…