05.23.2023 Agriculture Guest column: Fifty years making ‘beautiful wine in a beautiful place’ In 1973, when Alex and I came to the North Fork looking for a place to plant grapes, make wine and start a family, we wanted to make beautiful...
05.31.2018 Community Finding inspiration at Mighty North Fork Triathlon Race day began before sunrise, which suited Jean Mellano; she couldn’t sleep anyway. Dark clouds hovered over the North Fork and the whipping wind signaled less-than-ideal conditions ahead. Ms....
12.03.2017 Government Public hearing on Southold’s wineries sure to stir debate Tuesday Some members of Southold Town’s alcohol farm products working group are concerned about proposed amendments to town code that would, among other things, require that wineries use 80 percent...
10.09.2017 Government Town’s alcohol farm products working group aims to strike balance Southold Town’s alcohol farm products working group faces a hefty task. Since May, the group has been trying to develop recommendations on how town code should address wineries, breweries,...
07.16.2017 Columns Suffolk Closeup: A green, and tasty, future for Long Island’s wine region Long Island, with a centuries-long history of farming, has undergone an agricultural revolution in just a few decades, sparked in 1973 by a pair of pioneers in planting grapes...
05.24.2017 Obituaries Cutchogue farmer remembered for generosity, passion for agriculture Longtime North Fork farmer Mike Kaloski was known for his giving spirit. To some, his generosity came in the form of produce he shared in a time of need....
02.25.2017 Columns Guest Column: The positive impact of the North Fork’s wine industry The first day in 1973 that my then-husband, Alex, and I arrived on the farm we’d bought in Cutchogue, on Long Island’s North Fork, to plant the region’s first...
08.14.2015 Editorials Editorial: After 350 Hargrave wine columns, a changing of the grapes Over the course of the past 15 years, Louisa Hargrave has written more than 350 columns for this newspaper. For much of that time, her column has also been...
07.03.2014 Columns Hargrave Column: Remembering the Borgheses The tragic loss of Ann Marie and Marco Borghese has all of us who knew them reeling. My heart weeps for their family.
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...
