Category Archives: WINERIES WANDERED

My impressions upon visiting wineries and wine regions.

Mélange de Trois, Jamesport Vineyards, North Fork Long Island, NY 2005

Posted on May 23, 2011 by waywardwine

Sex sells wine and visa versa. Our social insecurities about copulating pair beautifully with our concerns over alcohol. We giggle and titter at both because, although natural and basic, they seem to be taboo, private things. As kids, sex and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cabernet Blend, Long Island, Red, Uncategorized, WINERIES WANDERED | Tagged Alcoholic beverage, Bordeaux, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Folie à Deux, Jamesport Vineyards, Long Island, Mélange de Trois, Ménage à Trois, merlot, Oak, wine | Leave a comment

North Fork, Long Island, New York: June 2010

Posted on May 2, 2011 by waywardwine

The ferry dropped my wife and I onto a strip of asphalt surrounded by the Atlantic. June sun bounced off the clockwork whitecaps marching in from the horizon. The Buick rumbled into life, aimed West, and we began our wine … Continue reading →

Posted in Long Island, WINERIES WANDERED | Tagged Bordeaux, Buick, Finger Lakes, Long Island, Manhattan, New York, New York City, North Fork, overpriced, Peconic Bay Winery, wine, Winery | Leave a comment

Chateau Frank, Blanc de Blancs, Finger Lakes, NY 2006

Posted on February 3, 2011 by waywardwine

New York sparkling wine might sound oximoronic. But some of the best places for bubbly are cold and miserable. Take the region of Champagne, for example. It sits around latitude 49. The average temperature is 50. The Finger Lakes are … Continue reading →

Posted in Keuka Lake, New York, Sparkling, WINERIES WANDERED | Tagged Champagne, chardonnay, chateau frank, Dr. Konstantine Frank, Finger Lake, Food, Keuka Lake, New York, pinot blanc, pinot noir, Sparkling wine, vitis vinifera, wine, Wine tasting descriptors | 5 Comments

FINGER.LAKE.FOUND

Posted on November 26, 2010 by waywardwine

I cannot sleep. Wine equipment awaits me in the car. Untold microbes cover everything, bent on ruining my future wine. Yesterday, I wine-tasted on Keuka Lake’s western shore. Today, on Halloween, I pick up my vignoles juice. I stumble through … Continue reading →

Posted in Keuka Lake, New York, VIGNOLES VENTURING, WINERIES WANDERED | 2 Comments

CLIFF.HANGER

Posted on May 3, 2010 by waywardwine

From Benmarl Winery we drive thirty minutes to Whitecliff Vineyards. Hoping. The road curls over hills, twisting East and away from the tempering humidity of the Hudson. The sandstone and shale crescent of Shawangunk Ridge (from where the wine-region gets … Continue reading →