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Corey Creek Vineyards 2008 Domaines CC Rose

By Lenn Thompson, Founder and Editor-in-Chief For some reason, we haven't been drinking as much rose around the house this summer as we normally do. I'm not sure why, exactly, but this wine was a nice reminder of why we should drink it more often, with and without our meals. I should also mention that year in and year out, this is always one of my wife's favorite local roses. Corey Creek Vineyards' 2008 Domaines CC Rose ($18) is made using the saignee method where juice is bled off early in the red wine process and fermented separately. It's mostly…

WTN: Corey Creek 2006 Chardonnay (North Fork of Long Island)

I have a lot of blogging to do to catch up on everything that we ate and drank last week. But first, we’ll start with one of the recent Bedell Cellars/Corey Creek wines I tasted. We all know that the ‘reserve’ designation doesn’t have any official meaning, but most of the time, on Long Island anyway, it means barrel fermentation and aging. The ‘regular’ bottlings usually mean more steel fermentation and more use of neutral oak. Tasted blindly, I thought that Corey Creek Vineyards’ 2006 Chardonnay ($25) was Corey Creek’s ‘reserve’-style wine (which I’ll be writing about later this week).…

July 30: Winemaker Dinner With John Levenberg, Bedell Cellars/Corey Creek Vineyards

On July 30th at 6 p.m., Mora’s Fine Wine and Spirts will host a winemaker’s dinner with John Levenberg, winemaker at Bedell Cellars and Corey Creek Vineyards at Bliss restaurant in East Setauket. I’ve met John on a few occasions and he is a young, energetic winemaker with great, diverse experience. He’s also a lot of fun and I’m sure this dinner will be as well. The menu is: Bay Scallop Risotto Bedell Cellars “Main Road White” NV Watermelon and Feta SaladCorey Creek Vineyards 2006 "Domaine CC" Rose Roasted Breast of Long Island Duck with White Bean Ragout and Cabernet…

Corey Creek Vineyards Grand Re-Opening: May 26-28

You may have noticed that the tasting room at Corey Creek Vineyards, sister winery to Bedell Cellears was closed for six days in March for some major, but quick renovations. Well, this Memorial Day weekend (May 26-28) it will officially re-open (even though it’s been open since) with a new look, new focus and some new wines. The newly renovated tasting room now features rich earth tones such as milk chocolate, copper, gold and red to coincide with the label colors of the wines.  New built-in displays will offer a new assortment of merchandise featuring local food products, wine products…

New York Cork Club: March Selections

In the wake of some great coverage of the New York Cork Club, I’m happy to announce our March Selections…a steel-fermented favorite and a enchantingly flavorful cabernet franc. First is the 2005 Steel Fermented Chardonnay ($16) from Peconic Bay Winery. When I first moved to long Island less than a decade ago, I was still a wine newbie and had only experience oaky, heavy chards from Australia and California. This was was amazing…it actually allowed me to taste the chardonnay grape for the first time. Fresh on the nose with almost sauvignon-blanc like grapefruit and other citrus, there is also…