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Sunset Beach asks for Bastille Day party permit
June 19, 2013
Education
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June 7, 2013
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Merchants, board look to lower speed on Bridge St.
June 17, 2013
Driveway settlement? Judge may impose decision
June 13, 2013
Community
Bausman steps down as Island Red Cross CEO
June 17, 2013
Obituaries
Obituary: Barbara Joy Roberts Carlsen
May 28, 2013
Obituary: Reporter staffer David Lee Draper
May 20, 2013
Real Estate
This week in Shelter Island history
May 30, 2013
Opinion
Letters to the Editor: Dark skies, pro and con
June 13, 2013
Letters to the Editor
June 11, 2013
Wine Press
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Long Island Winterfest provides a boon to business
It’s that time of year again when visitors from across the Northeast flock to Long Island Wine Country for Winterfest Jazz on the Vine. The six-weekend jazz-and-wine celebration kicked off Jan. 25 with a media event and party at Hotel Indigo in Riverhead, with shows booked at select winery tasting rooms...
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Steve Watson Trio kicks off Winterfest 2013
An evening of food and live jazz helped kick off 2013’s Winterfest Friday night at The Hotel Indigo in Riverhead. Winterfest, a jazz and wine festival held at North fork wineries, will run on weekends between Feb. 9 and March 17. The kick-off event in the hotel’s ballroom featured live jazz...
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Wine Enthusiast ranks Long Island among world’s top wine destinations
Here's something to warm you up for the winter: The North Fork of Long Island now has something in common with Rioja, Spain and Danube, Austria. All three regions were included in Wine Enthusiast's recent list of the Top 10 Wine Destinations in the World for 2013. The news comes three months...
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Wine Press: Here’s your chance to name a grape variety
Love wine? Want to help name a new variety of grape? Here's your chance. Cornell University is asking the public to help them name two new varieties of grape from their breeding program set to be released next year. Grape breeder Bruce Reisch is the man behind the new varieties, including a cold-hardy...
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Sherwood House Vineyards named ‘North Fork Winery of the Year’
Sherwood House Vineyards in Jamesport won four awards this week, including North Fork Winery of the Year, at last month’s New York International Wine Competition, according to a press release the company sent out this week. The vineyard’s 2011 unoaked chardonnay, 2010 chardonnay and 2007 merlot won this year’s top awards...
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Wall Street Journal ranks Paumanok riesling among the nation’s top 12
Kareem Massoud has been the winemaker at the family-owned Paumanok Vineyards since 2001. Paumanok has been an estate winery since 1990, when Ursula and Charles Massoud renovated and re-built a turn-of-the-century potato barn. “I’m a second generation, homegrown winemaker. I learned the trade under my father’s tutelage,” Mr. Massoud said. His father, Charles...
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VIDEO: Vineyards brace for early bud break after mild winter
Kareem Massoud is a second-generation wine grower and Paumanok Vineyard's winemaker for more than 10 years. The eldest son of owners Ursula and Charles Massoud, Kareem and Paumanok's 2010 Semi-Dry Riesling were recently chosen as one of the Wall Street Journal's "luxury dozen," 12 bottles of 800 that were judged in...
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VIDEO: Want to make your own wine at home?
Jim Waters, 22-year winemaker and owner of Waters Crest Winery in Cutchogue, demonstrates in this video how to make two and a half cases of red wine in your own home. Mr. Waters teaches a two-day Vine University class on home wine making and provides a kit with the necessary...
