08.15.2011 News Wine Column: Q&A on the new winery legislation On July 22, according to a press release by his office, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he has “signed legislation to significantly reduce the regulatory burdens placed on farm...
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...
06.06.2011 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,...
05.23.2011 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...
05.09.2011 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...
04.25.2011 News Wine Column: Late harvest can yield sweet results Even after a wine journalists’ jaunt to sweet-wine-centric Germany in September, I continue to prefer bone-dry wines, and rarely consume wines with more than half a percent residual sugar....
04.09.2011 News Wine Column: Aging hasn’t slowed these local ‘relics’ I can be pretty jaded when it comes to wine tastings, but there was no room for “been there, done that” at a tasting of 26 Long Island wines...
03.29.2011 News Wine Column: What makes Long Island wines ‘cool’ From 1973 to 1999, when I had my own vineyard, I always loved to work in the field after the sap began to flow in mid-March. The barely sweet...
03.14.2011 News Wine Column: Bacon chocolate, a jug of wine and thou Pairing food and wine is part of a wine journalist’s job description, but I rarely write about specific pairings because, frankly, I’d rather generalize: Good wine goes with good...
02.28.2011 News Wine Column: International adoption for Argentine wine The swarthy gaucho came tearing across the pampas, his muscular steed foaming with sweat as they galloped toward the campfire. Around them, the Andes rose in a wall of...