Posts Written OnMay 02, 2011

By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor With wines from "great red wine years" like 2005 and 2007 available across New York (with 2010s still at least a year away), it would be easy to focus on wines from those vintages and dismiss those from other years. It's easy to be wowed by the intensity and power of those wines, but if you explore New York reds with hot-vintage blinders on, you'll miss out on a great many delicious, satisfying wines from more typical years. This Lakewood Vineyards 2008 Cabernet Franc ($16) is an nice example of we shouldn't dismiss cooler years.…

Photo courtesy of Bedell Cellars It's that time of year again in New York wine country — bud break season. This is a photo of Dijon-clone chardonnay in the Bedell vineyard. If you're seeing bud break in your vineyard, send us a picture and we'll post it.