Today, Tug Hill Vineyards in the North Country unveiled the wines from its first vintage, continuing the trend of new wineries opening in unlikely places. I had the honor of uncorking the first bottle. First, some basic geography: “Tug Hill” is a very large geographic region well north of Syracuse and southeast of Watertown. It [...]
At Jefferson Vineyards, they grow grapes and make wine from Thomas Jefferson’s original vineyard sites, first planted in 1774 just one mile from Monticello. The replanted those iriginal vineyards in 1981, and have been making wine there since. Jefferson produces between 4000 and 8000 cases annually. Andy Reagan is the winemaker and general while Missy [...]
Macari Vineyards of Long Island’s 2008 Block E dessert wine was served at the 2011 Governor’s Dinner on February 27, 2011 hosted by President Obama. This is the third occasion that the winery has been selected for a pairing at the White House – Macari’s 1997 Barrel Fermented Chardonnay was served under the Clinton administration [...]
I am posting this about a month late, so my apologies to the folks at Va La Vineyards, in Pennsylvania. I can’t help it, but I love this winery and their wines. Exquisite stuff. And I like the way they do things. They do things right. Harvest 2010 at Va La.by Anthony Vetri My family [...]
Colorful metallic streamers, big yellow balloons with huge eyes, distressed bird call recordings that had neighbors wondering if they were in a tropical forest while on a walk. John Holleman will do anything to protect his three precious acres of Zinfandel in San Andreas from pesky birds. He will even attempt at herding wild turkeys [...]
Wine lover and entrepreneur Dennis Horton began his wine making venture with a small home vineyard in Madison County, Virginia in 1983. It did not take him long to realize that, although the Virginia summers were warm enough to ripen almost any grape variety, the humid conditions favored growing grapes with thicker skins and loose [...]
Photo provided by Chatom Vineyards In 2011 Gay Callan, owner and visionary behind Chatom Vineyards, will be celebrating 30 years of crafting fine wines in Calaveras County. With several generations of farming on her mother’s side, Gay started seeking property for a vineyard when vineyards in Calaveras County were pretty scarce. That would be the [...]