Milla Handley has been making wine in California since 1975. Back then, she was one of very few women actually down in the cellar, dragging hoses around and monitoring fermentation temperatures. In 1978 she and her husband, Rex McClellan, moved to the remote Anderson Valley, north of Sonoma, where, over time, they planted 29 acres [...]
The makers of Long Island’s first vodka have expanded their offerings, moving beyond potato-based spirits to embrace barley. LiV, Long Island’s first and only distillery, just released a 150-case micro batch of the region’s first and only locally produced single-malt whiskey, a 95 proof spirit. “It’s brand-spanking-new,” said LiV owner Richard Stabile. The first batch [...]
Chile and Argentina are both defined by their shared border of the Andes Cordillera, that jagged mountain chain that runs down the spine of southern South America and affects the two countries in climate, history, politics and attitude. On the Chilean side, the mountains are omnipresent. The country is so long and so narrow that [...]
When it was time to name their vineyard, Anthony and Lisa Sannino pictured their lives together. Mr. Sannino would be tending to the grapevines and making wine during the day while his wife poured glasses of wine for customers in a tasting room, a restored potato barn and hog house built in the 1900s. They [...]
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 a turn-of-the-century potato barn. “I’m a second generation, homegrown winemaker. I learned the trade under my father’s tutelage,” Mr. Massoud said. His father, Charles Massoud, is [...]
Kareem Massoud is a second-generation wine grower and Paumanok Vineyard’s winemaker for more than 10 years. The eldest son of owners Ursula and Charles Massoud, Kareem and Paumanok’s 2010 Semi-Dry Riesling were recently chosen as one of the Wall Street Journal’s “luxury dozen,” 12 bottles of 800 that were judged in a blind tasting this [...]
Here’s a complete list of this weekend’s Winterfest events being hosted at a winery near you: Saturday, March 10 2 p.m. Dennis Raffelock Sannino Bella Vita Vineyard myspace.com/dennisraffelock 3 p.m. Monday Michiru Laurel Lake Vineyards www.mondaymichiru.com 3 p.m. Dan Aran Trio Palmer Vineyards www.danaran.com 4:30 p.m. Ojoyo Duckwalk Vineyards North www.ojoyo.com 4:30 p.m. Rare Groove [...]
On Jan. 25, I attended a Wine Media Guild vertical tasting (multiple vintages) of two important Bordeaux wines, Chateau d’Issan and Chateau Rauzan-Ségla, introduced by their respective managers, Emmanuel Cruse and John Kolasa. A day later, at an event sponsored by the Long Island Merlot Alliance, I blind-tasted 12 merlot-based wines that included seven from [...]
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 the cellar of Raphael in Peconic, he aims to turn the small red and white fruits into their highest potential. “I’m not making,” he said. “I’m [...]
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 wine. Seven percent of the wineries produce an entirely female-made product, with day-to-day responsibilities falling to the head winemaking woman — or women, such as Old [...]
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