Some sad news has hit the Long Island wine community today in the form of a report that Christian Wolffer, entrepreneur and founder/owner of Wolffer Estate has died in a boating accident in Brazil.
I haven't heard any details beyond that yet, but this is obviously a terribly sad day for the Long Island wine community. As Charles Massoud, co-owner of Paumanok Vineyards (who emailed me about Wolffer's passing) said "Christian was one of our early wave wine producers who has committed himself to quality and excellence. And I think he has
As more information becomes available, I'll pass it along. In the meantime, our thoughts and prayers go out to the extended Wolffer family.
Update: Jared over at Vine Views found some local news coverage in Portuguese and here is a (very) rough translation into English via Google