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Four friends from NYC tour Wine Country on a budget
SAMANTHA BRIX PHOTO | Bari on the Castello Di Borghese tour. Three writers were given a day to tour the North Fork in three very different ways: 1 a trip from NYC 2 a guys’ day out 3 a family outing...
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Forty years ago, a young couple started a region
COURTESY PHOTO | Louisa and Alex Hargrave left Harvard University, where they met, 40 years ago to head to Long Island’s East End. Louisa and Alex Hargrave stood under a sunny sky one unseasonably warm...
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What’s that taste like? A vast wheel of tasting terms
“This wine is summer in the glass with aromas of white peach, honeysuckle and wet beach stones washing over flavors of apricots, green gage plums and ripe honeydew melon.” Tastings notes like this one,...
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A taste of L.I. Wine Country in NYC
SAMANTHA BRIX PHOTO | A Palmer white is poured at the Grand Tasting in New York City. More than 200 people filled one of New York City’s largest wine stores in mid-March to swirl, sip and spit hundreds...
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The international story behind Paumanok wines
Charles Massoud and his family were living in Kuwait when he first started thinking about making wine. It was 1971, and alcohol could not be legally sold or consumed there at that time, but “there was...
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Long Island Wine Press: If tasting room walls could talk
Photo by Carrie Miller Perry Bliss, tasting room manager at The Old Field Vineyards, was pouring during a wine tasting one busy summer afternoon when she noticed a customer hoisting himself up on a...
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Wine Glossary: Don’t be left in the dark at a tasting
Yesenia Vasquez of East Meadow sips a 2008 Grapes of Roth Riesling at Roanoke Vineyards in Riverhead. We at northforker believe wine tasting experiences are as individualized as the tasters themselves....
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