By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor I don't write a lot of reviews of wines made with Cayuga White, a hybrid grape developed at Cornell University's Agriculture Experiment Station. Most of them just don't impress me. Too often they get that foxy character at high brix. But, when harvested a bit earlier, it can make some fruity, well-balanced wines that seem perfectly suited to summer sipping — or even as stand in for riesling at the dinner table with spicy ethnic foods. One such example is Lucas Vineyards 2009 Cayuga White ($9). Just cut pear and apple as well as slightly…
Posts Written OnMarch 08, 2011
What We Drank (March 8, 2011)
Here is a sampling of what our editors and contributors were drinking last week… Lenn Thompson: Jacques Puffeney 2005 Savagnin Arbois "Most of our customers don't like this." That's what our waiter at Bar Boulud said as he poured me a sip after I ordered a glass this Jura white. We had already established that we were wine lovers, so he meant it more as a badge of honor for me than any sort of warning. He clearly didn't need to warn me — it was a revelation. Clearly oxidized with a streak of acetone that took me back to…
Bloomer Creek: The Most Interesting (and Maybe the Best) Riesling You’re Not Drinking
By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor "As an industry, we're in love with certainty. But if you're going to make exciting wine, you're going to be on the edge of having flaws." Those are some of the first words offered by the winemaker of Bloomer Creek Vineyard. It's an ethos shared by many winemakers who produce the world's best wines. The concept of "best" wine or "better" wine is fleeting, a bit silly, and easily misguided. We tend to eschew the word "best" on the New York Cork Report. But spend a few hours with Kim Engle and Debra Bermingham, the…
Wine Blogging Wednesday #71 Announced: “Rhones Not From Rhone”
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor One of the things I've enjoyed most about Wine Blogging Wednesday over the years is how it forces participants to drink outside their comfort zone. I obviously taste and drink a lot of New York wines. It's great having a blog-related reason to drink something else. Enter Wine Blogging Wednesday and this month's host, Tim Elliot of Winecast. From his post announcing the theme: The theme for WBW 71 is,