03.25.2012 Business Wall Street Journal ranks Paumanok riesling among the nation’s top 12 Kareem Massoud has been the winemaker at the family-owned Paumanok Vineyards since 2001. Paumanok has been an estate winery since 1990, when Ursula and Charles Massoud renovated and re-built...
03.10.2012 Food and Drink Winterfest: This weekend in L.I. Wine Country Action at the wineries has slowed as Old Man Winter tightens his grip on the North Fork, which means it’s about time for Winterfest. The popular jazz concert series...
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...
03.01.2012 Business They’re women and they all make wine on the North Fork Winemaking is not just a man’s world, at least not anymore. Of the more than 50 wine-producing entities on the North Fork, 11 percent have a woman behind the...
02.27.2012 Food and Drink VIDEO: She does it all, meet the namesake behind One Woman Wines For nine years, Claudia Purita has been the one woman that is the namesake of Southold’s One Woman Wines and Vineyards. The owner, head winemaker, and vineyard manager, Ms....
02.25.2012 Food and Drink This weekend’s Winterfest schedule at the wineries Another packed weekend of Winterfest concerts gets underway at 1:30 p.m. Saturday when the Tessa Souter Group performs at Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard. Here’s a complete schedule of this...
02.18.2012 Food and Drink Complete list of Winterfest events for this weekend in Wine Country The popular Winterfest jazz concert series picks up where it left off last week with a full weekend of concert events at local wineries Saturday and Sunday. Admission 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...
02.06.2012 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...
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...