Vineyard workers picking riesling at Peconic Bay Winery yesterday By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief Photos Courtesy of Peconic Bay Winery In an effort to bring as many harvest pictures and as much harvest information to the site as we can, we'd like to invite any and all New York wineries to send us pictures and data from their 2009 harvest. Jim Silver, General Manager at Peconic Bay Winery sent me a few pictures from their 2009 riesling harvest, which took place yesterday under sunny skies in Peconic. They picked around 8 tons, which means about one ton per acre, half of…
Posts Written OnOctober 08, 2009
Local With Local: Announcing David Page as Long Island Chef
By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief Local With Local has been an increasingly popular feature here on the site over the last several months, mostly thanks to the contributions of Deb Whiting, chef and co-owner of Red Newt Bistro. She's brought new dedication to the project and has been pushing me to do it more often — to the point that we'll now be doing it monthly. Today I'm happy to announce that David Page, co-owner of Shinn Estate Vineyards and Shinn Farmhouse, has agreed to take over the Long Island edition of Local With Local on a similar monthly basis. Before…
Evan Dawson and Tom Mansell Contibuting to Palate Press
By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief This post is long overdue, and for that I must apologize to David Honig and Tish, publisher and editor-in-chief respectively, of Palate Press, a still-new online wine magazine that brings together some of the best and brightest in the wine blog world today. Case in point, the New York Cork Report's own science editor, Tom Mansell, and Finger Lakes editor, Evan Dawson are contributors and have published their first pieces. Tom's story, "The American paradox? Wine labels rarely list health benefits" discusses the truths and myths about the health benefits of wine. Evan takes on "minerality"…