LIWINEDAD

As our followers have noticed, this blog has been still for many months; nothing was wrong; the redoing of the front of our home kept us preoccupied and from wine country from the mid-summer till this week.  We are back on the road again, making the pick-up enjoying a few glasses of wine in the vineyards, and filling out the wine cellar for the coming holidays.  Good this Christmas day is at our home this year.  We had so many clubs and past club selections that we needed to do pick-ups on two separate trips.  Between the fall and winter club selection, we brought home over 100 bottles.  The first run on 19 Nov had us bringing home 44 bottles (Figure 1), and the 08 DEC run fetched 55 bottles from 9 wineries (Figure 2).  1 - 19 NOV 2021 WINE PICK-UP 2 - DEC 2021 WINE PICK-UP We still have Channing Daughters Winery and Wölffer Estate Vineyard for one more run before Christmas and delivery from Jamesport before we close out the year.  To balance all this fine Long Island wine, we also h

  Today was the first post COVID pickup of the 2021 season, as we were able to stop and enjoy a tasting along the way.  The crew this time consisted of Jo, Sister Mary, and Val, a new and good friend.  As I was the driver, I needed to be a bit circumspect in my tasting and limited myself to only an exceedingly small sip from time to time.  The trip was slower-paced with only three winery stops and lunch, as we will be returning next week to complete the June pickups.  First up was the Roanoke members' tasting room on Sound Avenue. Roanoke's members-only site is a charming place inside and outside; a large lawn with well-spaced seating leads down to the vineyard [1-7].  Roanoke is a members-only place, but as the commercial says, membership has its privileges. As is often the case on Long Island, the traffic is quite variable, so one tends to arrive early or late but rarely on time.  On this occasion, we were about 20 minutes ahead of the open. A Roanoke team member greeted us

  Friday 05 MAR 2021 is yet another cold bright day to start the spring wine pickup runs.  The trip was a bit slower-paced as we needed to taste and pick up some of our favored grapes for the summer Sauvignon Blanc and its cousins.  The tastings were successful, and we returned home with over 3 cases of wine, so we should be stocked with enough crisp white wines to pair with fresh oysters from New Wave Seafood on our upper rear deck.  The first stop was at Pellegrini Vineyards, a large beautiful complex on the main road in Cutchogue.  I missed the opportunity to take a picture of this place but will during our next visit—we picked up three reds and two whites after a quick tasting of the white. The reds are the Regalo 2015, Cabernet Franc 2014, and a Petit Verdot 2012.  For the white, we chose a Sauvignon Blanc 2019. Next up was Raphael winery , which is on the south side of route NY-25 in Peconic. Raphael’s is a stunning place with fine wines and outstanding food; of course, we might