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I think LI wines are quite good, more closely related to European wines than Cali wines. I also like wine tasting there, it's much more friendly and homey (and cheaper) than Napa and Sonoma.
Sure it's still new and relatively small, but I think it will continue to grow and get better and better. The farms out there will flourish, too, as will the towns and the restaurants, etc.
As far as the wines, I think Bedell makes some nice wines. Channing Daughters is a good one, too. Duckwalk is great. Wolffer Estates make excellent wines and have THE BEST winery on the island I would think.
Depends on what you are looking for. I think Palmer has the best wine. Pugliese is the best if you are buying an impressive gift for someone. Pindar is the best if you have guests that want to go on a wine tour. But my favorite is Osprey Dominion for just going there on a weekend afternoon with a hunk of cheese, buying a bottle of wine and sitting in their backyard and listen to the band they have playing. I have never had a bad time there.
Also like Martha Clara for an inexpensive everyday kind of wine. Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard has decent wines and is nice to sit, enjoy a bottle and listen to music in the summer. Roanoke is just okay.
I am not a big wine person (actually more of a beer drinker) but I like the atmosphere in the summer and fall. I don't think we can really compete with Napa/Sonoma or Oregon even, but I'm not able to travel much right now, so it works for me.
I am really curious about that new distillery- looking forward to trying that!
I often give Duck Walk and Pindar as gifts to friends from out of the area. I recently gave a bottle of each to a friend in PA. She LOVED the Pindar (it was Sweet Scarlett, which is my preference as well) much more than the Duck Walk.
I have been going out there for about 15 years. It has definitely changed a lot since over that time: more expensive, more winneries, more people for sure. I have not been to most of the new ones that have opened in the past few years but I can always count on Palmer, Pellegrini and Bedell. Raphael is probably the prettiest and most like a CA winnery in the look anyway. I went to a wedding there and it was great, they are a little pricey IMO. I go for the Reds mostly. Pindar is a great place to try a wide variety of wines though I am not a fan of most of them.
I think overall the wines are a bit overpriced but due to the small production amounts and twith he increase in people going out there they can pull it off. I think the quality of the some of them is really good, a few have beated CA wines in competitions. Obviously it will never be as big as some of the other wine regions but that is probably a good thing. Now I really need to get out there for a tasting.
I often give Duck Walk and Pindar as gifts to friends from out of the area. I recently gave a bottle of each to a friend in PA. She LOVED the Pindar (it was Sweet Scarlett, which is my preference as well) much more than the Duck Walk.
Those would be my picks. They are also family owned (Father and son...so when you pay for a tasting at one, you also get a coupon for a tasting at the other!
Pindar had a few cases of a 1996 Merlot that they were selling on clearance for $8.99...its very good.
The wine store at Costco in Holbrook has some of the LI wines in the back right corner. Much cheaper than the tourist prices you will pay at the wineries.
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