best winery on long island?

i want to go wine tasting... is Pindar the best?
name me some. thanks

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Pindar is very good..

I like Raphael the best though.

also.. Osprey Bay(sp?) was really cool.

Fellunicano Brothers was also good.
(I'm pretty sure it was a name like this.. I may be off on it but when you drive out to Greenport, you'll see a name similar to this.)

Hope this helps!

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Another vote for Pindar. I recently tried their champagne -- surprisingly good!

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Pugliese is my favorite! Osprey's and Martha Clara are really good too!

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I like Pindar, but FH proposed at Pelligrini, so that one will always be special.

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Pindar is great!! I highly recommend their Pythagoris and Mythology (both are reds). Yummy.

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I second Martha Clara. I love their wines! I prefer the smaller vineyards like Palmer.

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i love pindar and raphael

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i love pindar

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our fave is pugulisi and peconic

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We like Pindar too, but we're also very fond of Macari, Bedell & Corey Creek, Bidwell, Paumonauk. Lieb is nice too.

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IMO...
Pindar has the biggest tasting selection...
I love Osprey Dominion (the peach wine is the best!), Pelligrini (i take the Chardonney flights) and Laurel Lake!
You have to try an ice wine! Most of them have one!

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So funny there was a big article in Newsday about this today 7/16/04. Here it is:

VINTAGE WINES AND GOOD TIMES
In a mellow mood? Long Island's East End wineries offer tastings, music, art galleries and more

BY PETER GOODMAN
STAFF WRITER

It was still early on a Saturday afternoon in Peconic, and the sky was mildly threatening. Nevertheless, Lori and Gary Smith settled comfortably into their lawn chairs, with a cooler on the lawn between them and glasses of wine in their hands. Woody Mack tuned his guitar on the patio before them, as several other visitors to the Osprey's Dominion winery chatted amiably over wine and cheese.

The Smiths had driven to this North Fork vineyard from their home in Merrick, as they have done on many a summer weekend, for a few hours of music and drink.

'It's a nice way to spend the afternoon,' Lori Smith said as the strains of 'My Girl' drifted over the grass, the vines and the outbuildings filled with stainless-steel vats and oak barrels of fermenting liquid. 'We gave up tickets to the Yankee-Mets game and came here instead.'

Musician Mack lives in Bethpage, and during a couple of decades in the Island's musical scene he has found that the vineyards make a nice gig. 'It's very relaxing,' he said. 'You meet a lot of nice people.... I enjoy it myself.'



Wine and ... song

As Long Island's wineries have matured into a major local industry - saving farmland and helping build the North Fork, where they predominate, into a destination for up-Island and New York City day- trippers as well as tourists from New England - many of them have added a little music and a little art to make their offerings more attractive. 'It's a draw to the vineyard,' said Krista Zilnicki of the Long Island Wine Council. 'People are looking for things to do.'

The attractions range from low-key events such as Osprey's Dominion's free weekend performances to staged opera at Castello di Borghese in Cutchogue and full orchestral concerts - the Sound Symphony performs tomorrow night at Jamesport Vineyards. Events encountered on a recent day ran the gamut, from Woody Mack at Osprey through the Nick Russo Trio at Jamesport to the music, food demonstration, wagon rides, art gallery, and alpacas and goats at the Martha Clara Vineyard in Riverhead.

Everything goes on rain or shine. There's a little gazebo overlooking the vines at Jamesport where the Nick Russo Trio played until a light sprinkle drove them into an alcove in the tasting room. 'On a good day - even a rainy day - there are a couple hundred people,' manager Elizabeth Wilczynska said.



Writers speak

As demonstrated most elaborately by the expanse of activities at Martha Clara, there's often more than music. On Sundays, the Palmer Vineyard in Aquebogue presents 'Authors on the Vine,' in which host Larry Davidson talks with writers about their books (this weekend it's Sarah Dunn with her first novel, 'The Big Love' - Little, Brown, $21.95). 'It's just a nice cultural thing we do for the people in the area,' said Palmer's tasting room manager Susan Skrezec. 'It brings in a lot of people who maybe would never come to our vineyard.'

Art spritzer, anyone?

Several wineries have art galleries on their grounds as well, led by the evolving sculpture garden at the Channing Daughters Winery in Bridgehampton, one of just three vineyards on the South Fork. Co-owner Walter Channing is the sculptor, and he is continually adding new sculptures or cunningly modified pieces of driftwood.

Castello di Borghese is showing the work of Liz Duerschmidt, who specializes in paintings of old farm equipment. Martha Clara, which is one of the biggest wineries, hosts a branch of New York's Hemingway Gallery, this summer showing work from Zimbabwe. There's a second gallery as well, which also is used as a catering hall and will be turned into a theater later this summer, for a production of 'The Arabian Nights,' manager Bob Kern said.



Winery hopping allowed

Unlike the Smiths at Osprey's Dominion, few visitors spend their time at only one winery. Children are generally welcome - some wineries offer occasional events geared to kids - and most tasting rooms stock juice and soda as well as their various vintages. On the other hand, many adults, to free themselves from worry about drinking and driving, travel by limousine from one winery to the next. Osprey tasting room manager Scott Romond observed that, since his winery is one of the easternmost, it tends to get more crowded later in the afternoon, as travelers head from west to east, often aiming for dinner in nearby Greenport at the end of a mellow day of sampling merlot, chardonnay and pinot noir.

Wineries galore

The Long Island Wine Council's Web site, www.li wines.com, lists some winery events as well as its members, including their phone numbers and Web sites.

Several publications available at most wineries, including the Wine Press and the Long Island Wine Gazette, also publish a schedule of events.

Here is contact information for some wineries with ongoing activities:

Osprey's Dominion, 44075 Main Rd., Peconic, is 631-765-6188; www.ospreys dominion.com.

Jamesport Vineyards, Route 25, Jamesport, 631- 722-5256; www.jamesport- vineyards.com.

Martha Clara Vineyards, 6025 Sound Ave., Riverhead, 631-298-0075; www.marthaclaravineyards .com.

Castello di Borghese Vineyard, Sound Avenue and Alvah's Lane, Cutchogue; 631-734-5111; www.castello

diborghese.com.

Palmer Vineyards, Aquebogue; 631-722-9463; www .palmervineyards.com.

Channing Daughters Winery, 1927 Scuttlehole Rd., Bridgehampton; 631- 537-7224; www.channing daughters.com.

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I love Macari, Bedell/Corey Creek, and Paumanouk. I enjoy Pindar wines, but it can get very crowded at the winery.

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am470...which wineries use Macari grapes?
I go out there quite often, so i am curious

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oct.2004

I will FM you.

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can you fm me too? i go out there alot and curiousity has the best of me!

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am - is it true they are selling the winery for 95mil?

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Never been wine tasting....