08.26.2011 News Wine Column: Challenges of the ‘heartbreak grape’ When wine grapes were first planted on Long Island in the 1970s and ’80s, most growers chose to plant the most important grape varieties of France, including chardonnay and...
06.17.2011 News Wine Column: A lesson on the ABCs of chardonnay Last year, Americans spent $2,026,986,920 in retail shops on chardonnay, making it by far the most popular white wine variety on the market. The dollar value of the next...
06.13.2011 Business Winemakers Studio: A tasting room for wines without a home Remember that wine you enjoyed last weekend but couldn’t find a tasting room for? Well, soon it could be available at the Winemakers Studio on Peconic Lane in Peconic,...
06.06.2011 News Wine Column: New varieties add spice on North Fork In my last column, I wrote about Champagne vigneron Philippe Brun and his ironic take on being a “pirate” farmer. On a drive around his grand cru vine plots,...
05.26.2011 News Thousands of bottles collect dust while labels await federal approval Vintners spends months, if not years, perfecting the wines they bottle and sell, and somewhere near the end of that process, they attach a label to let the public...
05.24.2011 Real Estate Real Estate: One woman, many jobs She tends acres of vines, makes sure the tasting room is fully stocked, raises chickens, ducks and goats and nurtures tomatoes and eggplants “that I grow in my spare...
05.23.2011 News Wine Column: Grape farmers are anything but dumb In a current television ad for Ocean Spray cranberry juice, a young man standing in a cranberry bog in rubber waders plays out the stereotype of a hick farmer...
05.15.2011 Business VIDEO: Want to make your own wine at home? Jim Waters, 22-year winemaker and owner of Waters Crest Winery in Cutchogue, demonstrates in this video how to make two and a half cases of red wine in your...
05.09.2011 News Wine Column: Influence that shaped Osprey’s success Few are aware of the global scope of East End resident Peter M.F. Sichel’s influence on the wine world, but it extends from local winemakers here to captains of...
05.05.2011 News North Fork vineyards catch a break with new liquor laws The New York State Liquor Authority is planning to revamp licensing rules made at about the time when anyone producing alcohol was considered a criminal, and that’s heartening news...