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Pindar Vineyards’ Les Howard Announces Winemaker’s Cruise in Mediterranean

By Lenn Thompson, Long Island Editor and Editor-in-Chief Not only is Les Howard, a Long Island native and winemaker at Pindar Vineyards, improving the wines at the winery, he's organizing some unique promotions for wine lovers. He has just announced that he has partnered with with Crystal Cruises and Food and Wine Travels to create “Wines and Food of the Mediterranean,” an exclusive Winemaker’s Cruise that sets sail on May 25, 2010 from Venice to Barcelona for twelve days aboard the six-star Crystal Serenity. The Winemaker’s Cruise includes educational wine tastings and seminars, a winemaker’s dinner, a private shore excursion…

Les Howard: Building on Success at Jamesport Vineyards

Winemaker Les Howard’s 18-plus months at Jamesport Vineyards have been some of the craziest of his winemaking career. There was the stressful-but-successful 2005 harvest season that may prove to be one of Long Island’s finest. There’s how he’s developing his own style as head winemaker while maintaing the quality Jamesport is known for. And recently, he’s been able to enjoy impressive scores from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. "Things cannot be much better here at Jamesport," he wrote recently in an email. Howard, a Long Island native, "never thought of being a winemaker" when he first started at Pindar Vineyards over…