(Pictured left to right: Eric Fry (Lenz), Kelly Urbanik (Bedell), Adam Suprenant (Osprey's Dominion), Miguel Martin (Palmer), Rich Olsen-Harbich (Raphael), Pascal Zugmeyer (Peconic Bay), Greg Gove (Peconic Bay) and Jim Silver (Peconic Bay). By Lenn Thompson, Long Island Editor and Editor-in-Chief I just got home from a riesling-filled evening with some of Long Island's best winemakers, tasting a total of 24 rieslings from a variety of regions — the Finger Lakes, Long Island, Alsace, Washington, Mosel. Tasting with a group of winemakers is always a fun exercise. Opinions were all over the map about the various wines, and I'll be…
Posts Written OnSeptember 09, 2009
Q&A: John Leo, Winemaker, Clovis Point
By Lenn Thompson, Long Island Editor and Editor-in-Chief John Leo, winemaker at Clovis Point, was worn in the Hudson Vally region of New York and grew up around wine — his Italian maternal grandparents made it in their basement. He got into the wine business, after graduating from Syracuse University, in the "selling end" of the business, working at retail shops and restaurants in Manhattan and at Louis M Martini winery in St Helena, California. After two years in the Hudson Valley working for a winery that had to close up shop, he came to Long Island in 1994 to…
This Is Your Grape. This Is Your Grape On Downy Mildew.
By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor Photo by Morgan Dawson Photography Downy mildew is like the slasher movie killer in the vineyard: You almost never see it, but when it does make an appearance there is a trail of destruction in its wake. And all summer long, we heard how this was a disease pressure year like few others — a slasher movie, to be sure, in the unsuspecting vineyards. Check out this photograph of grapes ravaged by downy mildew. It was taken in a Finger Lakes vineyard that serves only as an experimental block and thus is not designed…