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2011 Beer of the Year: Custom Brewcrafters Krysztoff Baltic Porter
On behalf of the New York Cork Report I’m proud to announce our 2011 Beer of the Year: Custom Brewcrafters Signature Series Krysztoff Baltic Porter. We’ll have more commentary on this amazing beer, and on other beers that i...
NYCR Wines of the Year Weekend Kicks Off This Afternoon.. With Beer
Last year’s (much smaller) WoTy tasting. By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor The planning is complete, all of the wines and beers have been gathered, and later this morning the non-Long Island members of the New York Cork ...
The Finger Lakes 2011 Red Wines of the Year Finalists: Explaining the Diverse Selections
By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor Photos from our WoTY 2009 Tasting by Morgan Dawson I’m happy to see that the NYCR selections for Finger Lakes red wines of the year have generated a fair amount of feedback and debate. ...
Winery Websites: Not So Good, it Seems
By Evan Dawson, Managing Editor When you visit a winery’s website, you’re probably there for one simple reason. Either you want tasting room hours or the wine list or the winemaker’s story. But whatever it is,...
The New York Cork Report 2011 Wines of the Year Finalists
The winners from our 2010 Wines of the Year tasting (Photo by Morgan Dawson Photography) By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor This is the third year of our New York Cork Report “Wines of the Year” program and over t...
What We Drank (January 11, 2012)
This is a sampling of what our contributors have been drinking… Evan Dawson: Cold Heaven Cellars 2009 Viogniers This weekend we opened a pair of viogniers from a California winemaker uniquely devoted to the grape. I had a...
Admitting What We Don’t Know: Aging Potential for New York Wines
By Evan Dawson, Managing Editor The other day I read a truly outstanding piece of wine writing by one of the most underrated writers in the field today. He's underrated probably because he's not actually in the wine wri...
What We Drank (January 4, 2012)
Here is a smattering of what our contributors were drinking over the holidays… Lenn Thompson: Troeg's Brewery Perpetual IPASometimes, a brewery's top-flight reputation can almost be a hindrance. Troeg's Brewer...
Will Climate Change Help the Finger Lakes Wine Industry? Here’s Why it Might
By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor I read an article this week that has me thinking about climate and winter and the Finger Lakes wine industry. We head into Christmas weekend on pace for the second-lowest snow total ever R...
What We Drank (December 14, 2011)
Here's a sampling of what our contributors and editors are drinking… Donavan Hall: Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout When the days get shorter giving way to the early approach of darkness, and the air picks up a ...
