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Keeley's Cheese Co: A New Voice For New York Cheese

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By Aaron Estes, Cheese Editor Outside of the state, New York is known for your basic white cheddar. Nothing complex, nothing earth shattering?just a good solid cheese. Lucky for us, there are several cheesemakers out there who are on a...

New York Cork Report 4762 days ago

A Look Back on Seven Years of New York Cork Report

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor The New York Cork Report (formerly known as LENNDEVOURS) turns seven today. That's 2,959 posts and 9,354 comments worth. Wow. Seven years of New York wine, beer, food and spirits -- and more importantly the...

New York Cork Report 4762 days ago

Brock Expert's Tasting: Chardonnay as the Canvas for Niagara

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By Bryan Calandrelli, Niagara Region Editor The keynote speech at this year?s Expert?s Tasting of Ontario wines began with a reference to Alsatian winemaker Jean Michel Deiss, whose passion for the blend or assemblage led him to ask this question:...

New York Cork Report 4763 days ago

Wine Writer Oz Clarke Talks About Finger Lakes Wine

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By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor Photo courtesy of Antoinette Di Ciaccio, who was excited to meet Oz in October British wine writer Oz Clarke visited the Finger Lakes in October to promote his new book "Let Me Tell You...

New York Cork Report 4763 days ago

Q&A: Debbie Huneken, Tasting room Coordinator, Channing Daughters Winery

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Debbie Huneken, Tasting Room Coordinator at Channing Daughters Winery in Bridgehampton, is a local. She was born and grew up in Southampton, spending summers riding her bike and fishing, two activities she still enjoys in...

New York Cork Report 4767 days ago

Summer in a Glass Book Events: Quite Possibly the Most Fun You Can Have with Wine and Bound Books

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By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor I truly believe we're well on our way to shocking my publisher, Sterling Publishing, when it comes to interest in the Finger Lakes wine scene. That's not to say Sterling doesn't believe in my...

New York Cork Report 4768 days ago

Lucas Vineyards 2009 Cayuga White

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor I don't write a lot of reviews of wines made with Cayuga White, a hybrid grape developed at Cornell University's Agriculture Experiment Station. Most of them just don't impress me. Too often they get that...

New York Cork Report 4769 days ago

Wine Blogging Wednesday #71 Announced: "Rhones Not From Rhone"

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor One of the things I've enjoyed most about Wine Blogging Wednesday over the years is how it forces participants to drink outside their comfort zone. I obviously taste and drink a lot of New York...

New York Cork Report 4769 days ago

What We Drank (March 8, 2011)

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Here is a sampling of what our editors and contributors were drinking last week... Lenn Thompson: Jacques Puffeney 2005 Savagnin Arbois "Most of our customers don't like this." That's what our waiter at Bar Boulud said as he poured me...

New York Cork Report 4769 days ago

Bloomer Creek: The Most Interesting (and Maybe the Best) Riesling You're Not Drinking

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By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor "As an industry, we're in love with certainty. But if you're going to make exciting wine, you're going to be on the edge of having flaws." Those are some of the first words offered...

New York Cork Report 4769 days ago

TasteCamp 2011: Going International this May 13-15

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The Niagara River divides two wine regions as an international boundary between the USA and Canada. By Bryan Calandrelli, Niagara Region Editor As you?ve probably heard by now, TasteCamp is going where it?s never gone before: international. With an agenda...

New York Cork Report 4770 days ago

New York Wine and Culinary Center Launches Improvement Plan

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By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor Nearly five years after its grand opening, the New York Wine and Culinary Center in Canandaigua is getting a makeover. It is not of the extreme variety, and the relatively modest cost (by modern...

New York Cork Report 4772 days ago

Great Real NY Craft Beer & Food Festival -- Special NYCR Reader Discount

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Get Real NY's Craft Beer & Food Festival will take place March 19-20 at The Altman Building in the heart of Manhattan's Flatiron District. In addition to 90+ craft beers and 30+ homebrews, the all-you-care-to-taste...

New York Cork Report 4774 days ago

What We Drank (March 2, 2011)

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Here is a sampling of what our editors and contributors have been drinking. Evan Dawson: Local store's recommendation -- Ravines 2007 Meritage I had a very strange experience at a local wine store this past Saturday. I picked up a...

New York Cork Report 4775 days ago

Martha Clara Vineyards Promotes Epperson-McCarthy to Head Winemaker

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Robin Epperson-McCarthy has been promoted to head winemaker for Martha Clara Vineyards less than a year after being hired as assistant winemaker. Previous head winemaker, Juan Micieli-Martinez will continue to focus and expand his role...

New York Cork Report 4775 days ago

Video: Making Ice Wine at Standing Stone Vineyards

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By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor There are a handful of ways to make ice (and ice-style) wine, but to make it great, you've got to start with high-quality fruit. I'm reminded of that every time I taste a Standing...

New York Cork Report 4776 days ago

The Tasting Room Closing Today -- for Good?

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Theresa Dilworth, owner of Comtesse Therese winery and bistro will close The Tasting Room, Long Island's lone co-op tasting room for wineries, at the end of business today. Dilworth purchased and re-opened The Tasting Room...

New York Cork Report 4777 days ago

Amber Waves of Grain 2011 Homebrewing Competition

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By Julia Burke, Beer Editor This weekend hundreds of beer drinkers gathered on Grand Island to celebrate a single passion: homebrewing. The "Amber Waves of Grain Homebrewing Competition," hosted by the Niagara Association of Homebrewers, celebrates the ultimate in "drinking...

New York Cork Report 4777 days ago

Red Tail Ridge Winery Awarded LEED Certification

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By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor Red Tail Ridge Winery on Seneca Lake has achieved LEED Green Building Certification after a long and rigorous process. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. In a news release, Red Tail...

New York Cork Report 4780 days ago

The New York Cork Report Tasting Table -- February 23, 2011

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor These are a selection of New York wines that have crossed the NYCR tasting table recently but will not be reviewed as part of a standalone post. As always, these are transcribed almost directly from...

New York Cork Report 4782 days ago

Saperavi, the Great Red Grape of the Finger Lakes? Open Minds at Standing Stone Vineyards

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By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor Marti Macinski is thinking back to the early 1990s, when she first planted Saperavi. We're sitting in her lab, and it's freezing, and she's laughing, which she is almost always doing. "We had such...

New York Cork Report 4782 days ago

Channing Daughters Winery 2008 Vino Bianco

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Christopher Tracy, winemaker and partner at Channing Daughters Winery, is doing some of the most interesting things with chardonnay on Long Island. Of the winery's current offerings there are six different wines that either are...

New York Cork Report 4782 days ago

McGregor's Black Russian Turns 20: Trailblazing Past, and a Growing Future

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By Evan Dawson, Managing Editor The wine that is quite possibly the single most interesting wine in the Finger Lakes is turning 20, sort of, in 2011, and the McGregor family is throwing a party. (This is a family that...

New York Cork Report 4783 days ago

Peconic Bay Winery Names Hargrave Assistant Winemaker

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Peconic Bay Winery has namd Zander Hargrave assistant winemaker, adding him to long-time head winemaker Greg Gove's team. The Hargrave name isn't new to Long Island wine lovers. Zander's parents, Louisa and Alex Hargrave, founded...

New York Cork Report 4783 days ago

Book Review: The Wild Vine by Todd Kliman

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By Evan Dawson, Managing Editor The Wild Vine is not, at its core, a wine book in the most common sense. It is a story of outsiders, connected over the generations by a common sense of purpose and discovery. And...

New York Cork Report 4784 days ago

Village Beer Merchant Celebrates a Birthday With Local Beer

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By Julia Burke, Beer Editor There's no shortage of appreciation for craft beer sources in Buffalo, it seems: last week Village Beer Merchant (VBM), the city's best source for hard-to-find imported and domestic brews, celebrated its third birthday with a...

New York Cork Report 4787 days ago

Video: Sheldrake Point Vineyards Winemaker Dave Breeden Discusses the Art and Science of Winemaking

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Stumbled upon this video by Stephanie Warren and Ritchie King, posted on the Sheldrake Point website. This video is provided by Scienceline, a project of New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.

New York Cork Report 4788 days ago

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines: Brooklyn Brewery Expands

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By David Flaherty, New York City Correspondent Photos by Chris Lehault of IDrunkThat.com Like moths to a flame. Like lemmings to the edge of the cliff. Like schoolchildren to the tether ball pole, we came. From far and wide, the...

New York Cork Report 4788 days ago

WBW #70: Bodegas Dios Baco Oloroso Jerez 30 Years Old Baco Imperial

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor When it came time for me to pick a wine for Wine Blogging Wednesday #70: Spain! hosted by my friends over at Catavino, it was a difficult choice. I don't have a ton of Spanish...

New York Cork Report 4789 days ago

What We Drank (February 15, 2011)

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This is what our editors and contributors were drinking last week... Evan Dawson: Barboursville Vineyards 2002 Cabernet Franc Reserve (Virginia) On a blind wine evening that included Barolo, white Rioja, Chablis, Cahors and Bordeaux, this wine snuck in and left...

New York Cork Report 4790 days ago

Wine Blogging Wednesday #70 is Tomorrow

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Just a quick reminder that Wine Blogging Wednesday, the monthly tasting I created back in 2004 (after being inspired by a similarly styled food blog event) makes its triumphant return to the blogosphere tomorrow with...

New York Cork Report 4790 days ago

Turning Back the Clock: A Full Day on the North Fork

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The tasting room at Clovis Point on Saturday By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor If this post were a baseball game, it'd be "Turn Back the Clock Day" here on the New York Cork Report. I haven't written a post like...

New York Cork Report 4791 days ago

Saranac Irish Red Ale

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By Julia Burke, Beer Editor A style that often disappoints due to lack of depth, Irish Red is a rust belt staple and a must-have for the upcoming fish fry season. This one is an addition to Saranac's massive lineup...

New York Cork Report 4794 days ago

The New York Cork Report Long Island Merlot of the Year: Paumanok Vineyards 2007 Tuthills Lane Vineyard Merlot

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor At Paumanok Vineyards, there are two primary "labels," the standard line, known at the winery as the "white label" (which you can see here) and the Grand Vintage line of wines, only used during better...

New York Cork Report 4795 days ago

Video: Red New Cellars Rieslings from MyWineWords.com

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From time to time, we stumble upon some really outstanding New York wine-focused videos, and the latest from Peter and Allie over at MyWineWords.com certainly qualifies. In this episode, they taste a selection of rieslings from Red Newt Cellars. Check...

New York Cork Report 4795 days ago

Finger Lakes Riesling, Sparkling, and Gewurztraminer of the Year: The Reality TV Lesson

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By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor Photo by Morgan Dawson Photography Imagine for a moment that you're a contestant on one of the myriad reality TV cooking shows. Chopped, Hell's Kitchen, whatever you like. In this episode, you're going to...

New York Cork Report 4796 days ago

Lamoreaux Landing 2009 Dry Riesling

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars has gotten strong returns -- and plenty of well-earned attention -- for its single-vineyard riesling program in recent years. I enjoy many of those bottlings myself. But don't overlook the 'regular'...

New York Cork Report 4796 days ago

Announcing the Times-Union New York Wine Club

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor As of today, the New York Cork Club is no longer... and yet I'm happy and excited. Why? Because the New York Cork Report and Bacchus Wine and Spirits have added a third partner in...

New York Cork Report 4797 days ago

What We Drank (February 8, 2011)

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This is what our editors and contributors have been drinking... Lenn Thompson: Blind Bat Brewery Hellsmoke Porter Super Bowl Sunday is always big in our house, but when the Steelers are playing, it's becomes nothing short of a sacred holiday....

New York Cork Report 4797 days ago

Three Heads Brewing Java Sutra

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By Julia Burke, Beer Editor A visually striking beer, this Three Heads Brewing Java Sutra porter impresses immediately with a gorgeous four-finger head, puff-of-train-smoke black color, and lacing so perfect and so beautifully stratified that I had to take its...

New York Cork Report 4801 days ago

Macari Vineyards 2007 Bergen Road

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Over the next week or so, we'll be posting some reviews for wines that were finalists in our Wines of the Year tasting. Though I tasted and scored them a while ago, I didn't want...

New York Cork Report 4802 days ago

Shinn Estate Vineyards 2009 Wild Ferment Chardonnay

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor My feelings about barrel-influenced chardonnay are well document -- and I hear comments about them from winemakers and other local wine geeks all the time. It's simply not my favored style. It's rare that I'd...

New York Cork Report 4803 days ago

Three Guys Walk Into A Brewery: Rochester?s Three Heads Is No Joke

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By Julia Burke, Beer Editor There?s a new addition to Rochester?s beer community ? and it?s turning heads all over western New York. Three Heads Brewing Company, the brainchild of Rochester natives Geoff Dale, Dan Nothnagle and Todd Dirrigl, launched...

New York Cork Report 4804 days ago

Bottle of 1985 Lucas Riesling Shocks Experienced Tasting Group

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By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor Photos courtesy of Les Degustateurs Tom Leahy didn't know how he had come to own a bottle of 1985 Lucas Riesling from the Finger Lakes. It had slumbered in his cellar for years, though...

New York Cork Report 4805 days ago

Finger Lakes Red Wine of the Year: Ravines 2007 Meritage

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By Evan Dawson, Finger Lakes Editor After we had selected the Ravines 2007 Meritage as Finger Lakes Red Wine of the Year, we heard a remark from the adjoining room. "That's nearly a perfect wine." It came from Jim Silver,...

New York Cork Report 4805 days ago

Jamesport Vineyards 2007 Petit Verdot Reserve

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor In recent years, a handful of North Fork wineries have released varietal petit verdot wines, almost always from superior vintages because it is one of the last varieties to ripen each year. Jamesport Vineyards 2007...

New York Cork Report 4808 days ago

Reaction Flowing In to Wine Council Proposal

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As we get them, we're adding comments from industry members regarding the ideas put forward by Carlo DeVito regarding the creation of a New York Wine Council. From Jim Trezise of the New York Wine and Grape Foundation: "I?m aware...

New York Cork Report 4809 days ago

Swedish Hill Winery 2007 Optimus

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Many red blends from the Finger Lakes are heavy on the cabernet franc -- the red grape that many (though clearly not all) believe grows best consistently in the region. Ian Barry, winemaker at Swedish...

New York Cork Report 4809 days ago

Winery Owner Calls for Creation of New York Wine Council, Millions More in State Support

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By Evan Dawson, Managing Editor Carlo DeVito, owner of Hudson-Chatham Winery in the Hudson Valley, spent a long time studying the numbers. To him, they told a grim story -- New York wine continues to grow as an industry, but...

New York Cork Report 4809 days ago

Long Island's First Nano Cask Festival Offers Rare Opportunity to Taste Hard-to-Find Local Brews

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By Lenn Thompson, Executive Editor Here on Long Island, we're blessed with craft breweries like Southampton Publick House and Blue Point Brewery. Each makes some terrific beers -- ones that I'm happy to drink anytime I see them at a...

New York Cork Report 4809 days ago
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