Here is what our editors and contributors were drinking last week… David Flaherty: Smuttynose Brewing Company Winter Ale Now is the time of year to snuggle up by the fire and crack open a hearty, winter ale. Wait, does anyone even have a fireplace? Hmm…perhaps I'm so jaded by living in the city, I've forgotten that millions of people can have open flames inside their homes. I'm scarily close to becoming the sad sap that actually pays for the TV channel that plays a virtual, frickin fireplace 24 hours a day. Come to think of it–where can I get that?! But I digress. Last…
Posts Written OnDecember 07, 2010
Millbrook Vineyards 2008 Block Two West Chardonnay
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Grape growing dates to 1677 in the Hudson River Region AVA, but that doesn't mean that its an easy endeavor. Yes, the river that gives the region its name helps moderate the climate, but it's not nearly deep enough to have the same effect that the Finger Lakes do to the west. It rains a lot in the Hudson Valley. It's also humid. And like the rest of New York, it's a cool-climate region with a relatively short growing season often with early and late frosts on either end. Growing grapes, particularly vinifera, can be…
A Surprising Window Into Long Island Vintages: 8 Years of L’enfant Sauvage
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor What would you do if you looked in your wine cellar and realized you had a vertical of a particular wine? If you're like my friends Jared Skolnick and Tracy Ellen Kamens, owners of Grand Cru Classes on the North Fork, you throw a dinner party for 12 and open them together. And, you invite the winemaker, who graciously offers to bring a few more vintages, including the first ever made. That's how I found myself sitting with local winemakers and wine industry folks Sunday night at Jared and Tracy's wine education center with…