By Lenn Thompson, Editor and Publisher They don't always get a lot of attention, but there are quite a few late harvest and ice-style wines being made on Long Island. I say "ice-style" because the local versions of those wines are typically harvested long before they freeze on the vine, frozen in commercial freezers and pressed from there. This wine, Martha Clara Vineyards 2007 Himmel ($31) is one of those commercially frozen wines, made with 60% riesling and 40% Gewurztraminer from the producer's own vines. What works about the best local dessert wines is acidity to balance out all of…
Posts Written OnApril 10, 2009
I Met My Farmer Last Week. Have You Met Yours?
By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Correspondent Let me start by saying that I love animals, but I also love to eat them. I appreciate the dichotomy of finding cows lovable and delicious. I am nauseated by the horrific treatment of cows, pigs and chickens, among other animals, but it's always been easiest to simply not think about such treatment. This week that abrogation of duty ended for me. On a crisp but sunny afternoon I drove down to Romulus (located between Seneca and Cayuga lakes) to meet Tim Haws, the farmer and owner of Autumn's Harvest Farm. It was not…