Samantha Brix, Author at The Suffolk Times

01.18.2013 News

Forty years ago, a young couple started a region

The Long Island Wine Council celebrated its 40th anniversary Thursday night at Raphael Vineyards in Peconic. The North Fork wine industry began when Louisa and Alex Hargrave took a...

03.05.2012 Food and Drink

Wine Press: Meet winemaker Les Howard of Raphael

Les Howard doesn’t see himself as a winemaker. He considers himself a shepherd who guides grapes into wine. He doesn’t push the grapes, and he doesn’t change them. In...

02.23.2012 Food and Drink

How North Fork wineries survive the winter months

While this winter is shaping up be kinder and gentler than last winter, the ground is still cold and hard. Vineyard managers and their crews are pulling on warm...

02.19.2012 Real Estate

Real Estate: Check out one of the North Fork’s more unique offices

The only rehearsing going on nowadays in this former Mattituck theater involves courtroom drama. In a building where 19th-century North Fork families once put on plays and operas, two...

02.11.2012 Real Estate

Real Estate: Has the warm winter played tricks on your plants?

Have your plants begun to bud? Is the kale in your vegetable garden already ready to harvest? This winter’s unusually warm weather has caused plants, fruits and vegetables to...

02.10.2012 Business

Weekend at the wineries: First weekend of Winterfest concerts

The weekend we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. The first performances in the 2012 Winterfest Jazz on the Vine concert series will be held this Saturday and...

02.07.2012 Business

Riverhead restaurant to host ‘The Homo Project’ for charity

Patrons of The Riverhead Project are guaranteed to have themselves a gay ole time this Friday night, and restaurateur Dennis McDermott is even reaching into his own cash register...

02.06.2012 Business

Wine Press: Meet Sparkling Pointe winemaker Gilles Martin

Gilles Martin doesn’t remember a time when he wasn’t making fruit juice. The winemaker at Sparkling Pointe Vineyard in Southold remembers picking, coring and slices apples for cider as...

02.04.2012 News

Energy-efficient lighting trend gains traction on the North Fork

The switch to energy-efficient light bulbs is increasingly common on the North Fork as people recognize the move’s money-saving benefits and bask in the bucks saved on their electric...

01.30.2012 Food and Drink

Video: See just how they get those labels on wine bottles

We visited Sparkling Pointe in Southold last week to capture winemaker Gilles Martin labeling and boxing bottles of 2002 Brut Seduction, the winery’s signature sparkling wine. The bottles are...

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