Posts Tagged ‘2006’
Comtesse Therese 2006 Hungarian Oak Merlot
By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor 2006 was anything but a banner year on the North Fork. What was a mediocre growing season to begin with was worsened by two early frost events in early fall. The reds from the vintage generall...
Long Island Merlot Alliance 2006 Merliance
By Lenn Thompson, Editor in Chief Regional Wine Week continues today with a review of the Long Island Merlot Alliance's latest release, Merliance 2006 ($35). Formed in 2005, the Long Island Merlot Alliance (LIMA) str...
Roanoke Vineyards 2006 Cabernet Franc
Lenn Thompson, Editor and Publisher There's been a lot of TasteCamp content this week (for obvious reasons) so let's get back to some of the actual wines being made in New York. Not that this wine doesn't have a Tas...
Wolffer Estate 2006 Reserve Merlot
When I sit down to one of the Sunday morning wine tastings I conduct here on our dining room table, I never quite know what I’m going to get. I taste wine from every corner of New York State and, frankly, sometimes it can be ...
Bedell Cellars 2006 Reserve Merlot
2006 was a relatively cool year on the North Fork, but the vineyard management and winemaking teams at Bedell Cellars were able to coax impressive amounts of ripeness out of the grapes that went into Bedell Cellars 2006 Reserve...
WTN: Shinn Estate Vineyards ‘Red’ (North Fork)
Long Island, admittedly, doesn’t offer many red wine values under $20. So when I tasted Shinn Estate Vineyards’ latest non-vintage labeled ‘Red’ table wine, which is $15, I had high hopes. Would this be ...
WTN: Domaine CC 2006 Rose (North Fork)
Like most any American wine region, there are almost as many styles of rose being made on Long Island as there are wineries. You have some that are almost full bodied, big, soft and round on the palate and as dark as some light...
The Best Long Island Wines of 2006
As 2006 comes to an unseasonably warm close here on Long Island, I thought it a good time to list and highlight some of my favorite Long Island wines of 2006. I’m a lucky guy. I’m tasting and writing about Long Isla...
Harvest Lunch @ Wolffer Estate Vineyards, December 9: Taste the 2006 Vintage
On Saturday, December 9 at 12:30 p.m., Wolffer Estate Vineyards will host a harvest luncheon, where winemaker Roman Roth will offer the first tasting of Wolffer’s 2006 vintage. A traditional harvest lunch will also be ser...
Long Island’s 2006 Vintage So Far: Damp and Dangerous
I’ve been reading a few stories locally about how "great" the 2006 vintage is looking here on Long Island. Of course, knowing that the authors of these stories don’t typically cover wine (if ever) I was sk...
