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International Wine Center the Only Licensed School for Wine Careers in City
Mary Ewing-Mulligan MW, left and Linda Lawry of International Wine Center. Photo courtesy of International Wine Center. After two and half years of filling out forms and filing applications,...
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How to Tell If Your Brunello Is Counterfeit
A selection of 2011 and 2010 reserve Brunello at a recent trade tasting. Brunello di Montalcino is one of the most popular and pricey wines in the world; it’s also one of the most counterfeited. At the...
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Two Short Self-Guided Wine Tours on the East End
Until Google’s driverless car makes us forget how to use a turn signal, city dwellers have to plan transportation to Long Island Wine Country. Illustration by Rebecca Clarke. Every winery on Long...
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City Sommeliers Are Staying Local with Riesling
Thomas Pastuszak’s wine is made at Red Newt Cellars on the east side of Seneca Lake. Photo courtesy of the NoMad Bar. New York’s love affair with Finger Lakes riesling continues. And the trend of...
View ArticleWhat’s a Long Island Cheese Pumpkin and Where You Can Find It
We celebrated the Long Island Cheese Pumpkin this past Sunday @jimmysno43 during a chef cook-off. Learn more about this #ArkofTaste pumpkin and the Long Island Regional Seed Consortium:...
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The Finger Lakes Make Some of the World’s Best Rieslings—Here’s Proof
Anthony Road Winery owner John Martini describes an experimental vineyard. Let’s start with a factoid: Seneca Lake, the largest of upstate New York’s Finger Lakes, is 640 feet deep. Combine the max...
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3 Standout Bottles from Slow Wine’s 2017 Guide
In the Gavi region of Piedmont, three sisters make the namesake wine, Gavi, that uses the cortese grape. Photo credit: Facebook/La Mesma Truly, few people are better dressed than the men and women who...
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7 New York Wines You Should Be Drinking
Long Island is on a streak of good vintages starting with the 2013, whose reds are beginning to mature. For the sixth year, March has been NY Drinks NY month, a promotion to get New York City, one of...
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Buy This Wine and Help Build Bee Pollinator Habitat
Proud Pour’s new wine is a 2015 pinot noir from the Umpqua Valley in southern Oregon called “The Bee.” Photo credit: Facebook/Proud Pour Last year Berlin Kelly debuted a new wine brand Proud Pour with...
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This Wine Subscription Service Supports Small Producers and Good Causes
For its monthly shipments, Vinfluence features one producer who then picks three wines. Photo credit: Facebook/Vinfluence. Editor’s note: We kicked off our first annual Food Loves Tech event last...
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There’s a New Sake in Town—and It’s French
There are two sleek bottles being produced. There’s something about the French, how they mix the old with the new: think of the shimmering Eiffel Tower; the the glass pyramid in the center of the...
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What Makes Sotheby’s Sexy? Produce, Apparently
Not a normal night at Sotheby's: At one point, auctioneer Jamie Niven identified a bidder as, “the man in the shirt and no jacket.” Editor’s note: It may boggle the mind that a recent fundraiser at...
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