Posts Tagged“long island wines”

The 12 LI Wines of Christmas: #11 Bedell Cellars 2005 Reserve Merlot

This post is a part of my 12 Long Island Wines for Christmas series that will run from now until Christmas 2007. See the entire series here. Two more wines to go I’ve chosen them for two different reasons. Today’s wine, Bedell Cellars’ 2005 Reserve Merlot ($40) was one of the first 2005 merlots to hit the market and it offers a peek at what that vintage might eventually mean for Long Island. This wine’s intensity tells the story of the hot, dry growing season quite well I think. Loads of dense blackberry preserves, fresh figs and cocoa-coffee aromas reach…

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The 12 LI Wines of Christmas: #7 Channing Daughters Winery 2006 Vino Bianco

This post is a part of my 12 Long Island Wines for Christmas series that will run from now until Christmas 2007. See the entire series here. It’s impossible to put together a mixed case of Long Island wine without including something from Channing Daughters Winery. Rather than focus on Bordeaux varieties like merlot, cabernet franc and cabernet sauavignon, winemaker Chris Tracy focuses on white varieties, some bottled no where else on the Island. Unlike most wineries, the white wines are definitely the stars at CDW, but which to pick? With so many interesting, unique wines, it wasn’t easy to…

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The 12 LI Wines of Christmas: #5 Lenz 2001 Cuvee

This post is a part of my 12 Long Island Wines for Christmas series that will run from now until Christmas 2007. See the entire series here. I can’t have a mixed case of Long Island wine for Christmas without including some bubbly can I? I knew that I had to include some sparkle to the 12 Long Island Wines of Christmas, but I wasn’t sure which to include. You rarely hear about Long Island’s sparklers, but there are several terrific ones, many of them made by Eric Fry. At first I was going to choose his Lenz 1994 RD…

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