Rare opportunity to tour behind the scenes of Macari, 500 acre vineyard tour the waterfront farm, including a visit to the family's herd of cattle dedicated to vineyard compost production. You'll explore the Vineyard, enjoy sparkling wine overlooking the Long Island Sound followed by a private 5 flight wine tasting and delicious lunch in the handsome Barrel Cellar with Gabriella Macari, a third-generation grape grower.

Value $1000
Lunch and tasting will be held in wood-beamed subterranean Barrel Cellar, a unique and intimate setting, perfect for enjoying Macari premium wines paired with pizza, sandwiches, and cheese and charcuterie. Your guided tasting will highlight Macari holistic farming practises, viticulture, winemaking, vintage variation, and overall production.

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The history of Macari Wines reaches back to the 1930s and '40s when, Joseph T. Macari Sr., made wine with his father and grandfather in their basement in Corona, Queens, New York.

In the mid '60s, he purchased a 500-acre former potato farm on Long Island Sound. It would be another 30 years before he began to realize his dream of growing grapes and making wine. The farm was fallow until 1995 when Joseph Jr. and Alexandra Macari moved to the North Fork with their four children to begin planting vines.

The turning point for Joseph Jr. was when he studied with world-renowned visionaries in biodynamic viticulture, the late Alan York from California and Alvaro Espinoza from Chile.

From his studies, he developed a complex composting program that includes a herd of longhorn cattle and a field devoted just to compost. His approach is ecological and holistic: He knows that the health of the plants and the character of the grapes depend on well-nourished, living soil and that each step in the process contributes to the final product.

The vineyard's devotion to biodiversity provides an extraordinary grape growing environment that yields some of the finest fruit on the East Coast.