Wine
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Channing Daughters, Case Wine
$190BId on a mixed case of Rosati wines from Channing Daughters Winery, a Slow Food Snail of Approval Award winning winery in Bridgehampton
https://www.channingdaughters.com/the-winery-home
Value: $300
ARTISANAL EXPERIMENTATION
Channing Daughters aims to push the boundaries of what is possible in our vineyards, our cellar and our region. Currently they are producing about fourteen thousand cases of wine a year spread across nearly three dozen different bottlings. Channing Daughters strongly believes there are different foods, occasions, people, seasons and moods that demand different flavors, smells, textures and styles of wine. To this end they create single vineyard varietal wines and blended wines, wines made with indigenous, wild yeast as well as selected yeast, and occasionally a blend of both. Some wines are filtered and fined, some are not. Stainless steel tanks and barrels as well as French, Slovenian, American and Hungarian oak barrels are used in various sizes, formats, percentages and ages. Everything is done by hand in small batches with lots of love and attention in order to fulfill their commitment to quality wine in the bottle.
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Macari Tour/Lunch/Tasting
$620
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.
https://macariwines.com/visit/mattituck/
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.
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Meet the Author Wine Tasting
$50You are invited to a private event hosted by James Lane Post. A wine tasting to meet author & winemaker Carlo Devito at The Wine Room, 76 West Montauk Highway, Hampton Bays on Wednesday, December 4, from 6 to 9 pm.
Carlo DeVito is a lifelong publishing executive with more than 20 years of experience. He has written more than 15 books, publishes a highly-acclaimed wine blog, and is owner of the Hudson-Chatham Winery.
James Lane Post is a digital and print publication that covers the East End of New York, including the Hamptons and North Fork. The publication's goal is to celebrate journalism, uplift the community, and share stories that give back.
https://carlodevito.wordpress.com