Viniculture in LI, Part III: Paumanok Vineyards
“At Paumanok we practice viticulture that allows us to achieve our goal of growing the ripest, healthiest grapes our vineyards can produce while managing the vineyards in a responsible, sustainable...
View ArticleViniculture in the Hudson Valley: Robibero Family Vineyards
For several years there was a winery called Rivendell that called 714 Albany Post Road in New Paltz home. Then, in 2003, Harry Robibero and his wife Carole purchased the 42-acre property with the hope...
View ArticleViniculture in the Hudson Valley–Whitecliff Vineyards
The Hudson River Region has three wine trails, of which two are on the East side of the river and one on the West. The western one is the Shawangunk, of which Whitecliff Vineyards is one of the...
View ArticleCabernet Franc: the Signature Red Wine of the Hudson Valley Region
In 2014 Robibero Family Vineyards won a competition double gold for their 2012 Cabernet Franc. That was quite an achievement for a Hudson Valley winery, but it was made with Finger Lake fruit. There’s...
View ArticleViniculture in LI, Part III: Bedell Cellars
Bedell Cellars was established by Kip Bedell in 1980, making it one of the oldest vineyards on the East End and only one of ten that have vines that are 30 years old or more. Bedell was eventually...
View ArticleViniculture in LI, Part III: Gramercy Vineyard
In the words of Carol Sullivan, Gramercy “is a very pretty, pretty farm.” Gramercy Vineyards was originally a chicken farm, still with many of its original buildings, including a hen house that once...
View ArticleWine Books I Recommend
Following is a highly selective list of books that I’ve read or consulted that I consider particularly worthwhile. If I haven’t read or consulted a book, I do not recommend it. Alas, there are more...
View ArticleBooks about Long Island Wine
Now that my book, The Wines of Long Island, 3rd edition has been published as of August 2019 (see the Press Release) , it seems appropriate to review all of the other books on the subject that have...
View ArticleViniculture in LI, Part III: Baiting Hollow Farm and Vineyard
Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard According to the winery’s Website, it was sometime in the 1980s that Sam Rubin ventured to eastern Long Island and acquired what has since become Baiting Hollow Farm...
View ArticlePurchase my book, The Wines of LI, 3rd ed.
The Wines of Long Island was originally published in 1987 and a second, revised edition was issued in 2000. 19 years later, it remained the best and most complete single volume on the history,...
View ArticleViniculture in LI, Part III: Peconic Bay Winery
Peconic Bay Winery, which derives its name from the eponymous body of water by which it is located, was established in 1979 by Ray Blum, making it one of the oldest wineries in Long Island. Owned by...
View ArticleViniculture in the Hudson Valley–Hudson-Chatham Winery
Carlo DeVito works as a publisher and editor in New York City, is the author of several books, including East Coast Wineries: A Complete Guide from Maine to Virginia (Rutgers U. Press, 2004),...
View ArticleUpdates to Wines of Long Island, 3rd ed.
Updates to Wines of Long Island, 3rd ed., since it was published. The book was published on August 19, 2019; since then, significant changes have taken place in the wineries of Long Island. This, of...
View ArticleViniculture in LI, Part III: Paumanok Vineyards
“At Paumanok we practice viticulture that allows us to achieve our goal of growing the ripest, healthiest grapes our vineyards can produce while managing the vineyards in a responsible, sustainable...
View ArticleViniculture in LI, Part III: RGNY Vineyard (formerly Martha Clara)
In 1978 Robert Entenmann—of the Entenmann’s Bakery family—purchased a potato farm in Riverhead and transformed it into a Thoroughbred horse farm, once breeding up to two hundred mares. Apparently he...
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View ArticleThe Three Indispensable Wine Books
In my view, were one to be forced to choose the three most indispensable reference wine books published in English, they would be these: The Oxford Companion to Wine, 5th ed., edited by Jancis Robinson...
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