By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief I'm not 100% certain but I'm pretty sure that this is the first varietal Dornfelder I've ever tasted. And I'm a little embarrassed to say that I knew little-to-nothing about the grape. In fact, all I really knew was that Channing Daughters Winery in the Hamptons grows some and uses it for blending. So what is this grape, Dornfelder? It's a dark-skinned grape that was created in the mid-1950s by August Herold in Germany. It's a cross (not a hybrid) of Helfensteiner and Heroldrebe. It is widely planted in Germany, in part because it grows well in areas that…
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WTN: Channing Daughters Winery Over & Over - Variation One (Long Island)
I think that most fans of Channing Daughters Winery (and they are an ever-growing army) would agree that it’s a white wine shop. Sure, they make a few different red wines too, but most pale when compared to winemaker Chris Tracy’s stellar white wines. So, when saw that they had released a new red blend, for $35, I thought maybe it was just another over-priced Long Island red. And there are plenty of those to go around. But Tracy’s newest creation, Over & Over, isn’t like all of the other blended reds being made here. In fact, it’s unlike any…