Editor's Note: It's Regional Wine Week and while it's difficult to make this website any more locally focused, I wanted to draw some attention to the effort. As a member of the Drink Local Wine board of directors, I wanted to re-publish this post by DLW president, Jeff Siegel. I think it captures the essence of what DLW is all about. By Jeff Siegel, The Wine Curmudgeon This is DrinkLocalWine's fourth annual regional wine week, which means all sorts of goodies and festivities at DrinkLocalWine.com, including the 47-word essay contest and voluminous links to regional wine stories, photos and…
Posts Written OnOctober 10, 2011
2011 Harvest: Late-Season Thinning to Encourage Ripening at Clovis Point
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor There is some rain in the forecast later this week, but we're in the midst of a week-long string of sunny, dry days — conditions that were and are direly needed to keep disease pressure at bay in local vineyards and help grapes mature and ripen. Before the sun came out late last week, many local vineyards — including Clovis Point — were working to thin red wine crops, hoping that the reduced crop load will ripen more fully. According to Hal Ginsburg, managing partner at Clovis Point, the vineyard crew there dropped more than…
Kevin Zraly at Bedell Cellars Sunday, October 16 at 2 p.m.
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor This Sunday, October 16 at 2 p.m., Bedell Cellars will host wine educator, wine author, and recent 2011 James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Kevin Zraly for a talk and tasting. Zraly will offer his perspective on the wine industry after 40 years working in it, focusing on how far the United States has come in wine — of course discussing Long Island in particular. A Q&A and book signing opportunity with Zraly’s newest release Complete Wine Course 2012 Edition will follow. Books will be available for purchase ($27.95). Each guest for the lecture…