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  Time for a fun, leisurely dinner at home.  This time it would be Jo’s Salsa chicken paired with some wine.   The wine we selected is a recent acquisition from the new EV & EM Vineyards we visited about a week ago.   We tried the wine at the Vineyard and brought home a bottle of the 2019 ev & em2 Gewürztraminer .   The flavor profile of this wine was markedly different from the experience at the Vineyard, maybe due to the missing scent of fresh paint in the air.   We served the Gewürztraminer well chilled at about 40 ⁰ F and without decanting (Figure 1).   The color in the glass is shimmering light gold and absent any legs.   The nose is remarkably different than at the tasting room, with no notes of Lychee but more intense floral notes of Honeysuckle and rose.   The mouthfeel is medium-low acid and off-dry perfect to pair with the spicy Salsa chicken.   The palate also shifted from Grapefruit to more Tangerine with ginger on the finish.   The Gewürztraminer we paired wi

  This year we are trying to do more pickup runs and fewer wineries on each trip so we can linger at each winery and enjoy all they have to offer.  Today's run included two old favorites, a new/old winery, and a new lunch place.  First up was a stop to explore and pick up lunch at a new place called Center Cuts Two in Mattituck with more detail here .  Opening about a year ago, this is a boutique butcher shop and deli (Figure 1).  We wandered around a bit, snapped some photos, ordered lunch (separate post here soon), then headed east to Pellegrini Vineyards for a pickup, tasting, and enjoying the lunch we just grabbed (Figure 2).    All the Pellegrini Vineyards stop details are posted here .  Next up was a drive-by pickup at Sannino Vineyards ( New post here ) and then on the Laurel Lake, now called EV & EM Vineyards (Figure 3), with a more detailed set of comments here soon.  Overall, this was a much more slow and enjoyable-paced pickup run that we will adopt going forwar