Palate Press

1 min read

Freshly cut pears and Meyer lemon waft up from the glass. Citrus takes the lead on the palate, white grapefruit and lemon, with pear and hints of toasted hazelnut in the background. White grapefruit lingers on the finish. This is a tart, palate-cleansing wine, something to drink between bites of

What We’re Drinking – Lieb Cellars Reserve Cabernet Franc

David Honig

Wine Reviews

1 min read

The nose shows the clear Cuban cigar benchmark for North Fork Cabernet Franc. Raspberry is the predominant flavor, with tobacco and vanilla on the mid-palate. This is an interesting food wine, one that will enhance, rather than compete against, most meats. Drink with lamb chops. Recommended. 88 points. DBH WHO:

The Contradictory Consultant : A Look at Clark Smith and His Postmodern Winemaking

Remy Charest

Features

6 min read

Clark Smith is a tough act to follow. By this, I don’t mean that it’s hard to step on a stage after he has danced his ideas across it, but rather that it’s often hard to understand what he’s getting at. In the last few months, I heard Clark Smith

The Accidental Leader of the Fork’s Organic Pack

Diana Combs

Feature Stories

2 min read

There are now eighteen vineyards with sustainable practices in Long Island, and Barbara Shinn is leader of the pack. Shinn is a modest woman, thin and deeply tanned, with dirty blonde, shoulder length hair. She probably never intended to be a groundbreaker (pun intended) for Long Island vineyard farming. In

New Wave of New York City Wineries Find Their Footing

Sarah Chappell

Features

9 min read

New Yorkers love finding the next big thing, and if they do it in California, Virginia, even not-so-far-away Long Island, presumably it is time for a city of 8 million people to catch on. This is why, in a time-read more-

Nine New York Wineries to Watch

Lenn Thompson

Features

10 min read

In the May 2006 issue of Wine Spectator Mitch Frank penned “New York Rising”, a story identifying New York as “America’s next great wine region” adding that “New York was once known for industrial bulk wine production, but passionate vintners, most-read more-

Open That Bottle Night is Just Around the Corner

David Honig

Features

8 min read

Dottie and John will host Open That Bottle Night live, on February 26, 2011, from 7 pm to 10 pm Eastern, only on Palate Press: The online wine magazine. Join us on OTBN to chat with Dottie and John. Tell-read more-

Tasting Méthode Champenoise Sparkling Wine from Long Island and the Finger Lakes

Maggie Hoffman

Feature Stories

5 min read

In some ways, New York’s wine regions are ideal for making sparkling wine. The generally cool weather—combined with lake effect in the Finger Lakes and ocean breezes in Long Island—allows grapes to ripen slowly with gorgeous aromatics and natural acidity.-read more-

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