Top 100 wines of Long Island - Page 5

Discover the top 100 best wines of Long Island of Long Island as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Long Island and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Discovering the wine region of Long Island

The wine region of Long Island is located in the region of New York of United States. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Wölffer Estate or the Domaine Wölffer Estate produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Long Island are Merlot, Cabernet franc and Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Long Island often reveals types of flavors of microbio, tree fruit or earth and sometimes also flavors of floral, red fruit or non oak.

In the mouth of Long Island is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble. We currently count 24 estates and châteaux in the of Long Island, producing 127 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Long Island go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison).

Discover the grape variety: White muscat

White muscat is a white grape variety of Greek origin. Present in several Mediterranean vineyards, it has several synonyms such as muscat de Die, muscat blanc and frontignac. In France, it occupies a little less than 7,000 ha out of a total of 45,000 ha worldwide. Its young shoots are downy. Its youngest leaves are shiny, bronzed and scabrous. The berries and bunches of this variety are all medium-sized. The flesh of the berries is juicy, sweet and firm. Muscat à petits grains has a second ripening period and buds early in the year. It is moderately vigorous and must be pruned short. It likes poor, stony slopes. This variety is often exposed to spring frosts. It fears mildew, wasps, grape worms, court-noué, grey rot and powdery mildew. Muscat à petits grains is used to make rosé wines and dry white wines. Orange, brown sugar, barley sugar and raisins are the known aromas of these wines.

Food and wine pairing with a wine of Long Island

wines from the region of Long Island go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or spicy food such as recipes of brazilian feijoada, duck breast with red fruits or grilled pork ribs with barbecue sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of wine of Long Island

On the nose in the region of Long Island often reveals types of flavors of spices, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, citrus fruit or tree fruit.

News from the vineyard of Long Island

Sebastian Payne MW retires from The Wine Society

Having joined The Wine Society’s team in 1973 as promotions manager, Payne became the head buyer in 1985. He stepped down from this position in 2012, when Tim Sykes took over, but has remained on the buying team ever since. As part of his responsibilities, Payne has bought in every region throughout the years but, in recent years, focused mainly on Italy and Bordeaux. He was also instrumental in introducing wines from Eastern Europe and Greece to the portfolio. The Wine Society described Payne’s ...

The Macallan launches 81-year-old whisky

The spirit was filled into a single ex-Sherry cask at the Speyside distillery in 1940, shortly before The Second World War forced The Macallan to close for the first time in its history. Bottled at 41.6% abv, only 288 decanters are available worldwide, featuring eye-catching packaging: a mouth-blown glass decanter sitting on a bronze sculpture of three hands, created by Scottish artist Saskia Robinson. The hands represent the distillery workers of 1940 who made the whisky; former Macallan chairm ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...