Wine Country

Tellers Chophouse Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Special Discounts and Wine Tasting Menu

Jul 27th, 2009 | By LI Food Man | Category: Discount Prices, Wine Country

10TH ANNIVERSARY WEEK HIGHLIGHTS
*Half-price bottles of wine, originally $30 to $3000 per bottle,
from the 1,000 labels of wines in the 10,000-bottle Tellers Wine Vault
*$75 Tellers Top Ten Tasting Menu, $100 with wine pairings (see below)
*$10 unlimited tastings of featured wine each night (see below)
*10th anniversary gift to all guests

TELLERS TOP TEN TASTING MENU SERVED DAILY, [...]



Summer Fun On Fire Island Robert Moses State Park

Jul 19th, 2009 | By gnxmusic | Category: Things To Do, Wine Country

Long Island is filled with beautiful beaches and long summer walks in the sand. Jones Beach is Long Island’s most popular beach but Fire island is equally as nice and not as crowed with tourists. The view of the light house from all angles of the beach is breath taking especially when there is a [...]



Long Island’s Macari Vineyards Celebrates 11 Years with Discounts

May 13th, 2009 | By LI Food Man | Category: Discount Prices, Events, Wine Country

Macari Vineyards is celebrating its 11th year of wine making on Long Island’s prestigious north fork.
Now is a great time to visit the Long Island wineries and vineyards. The graep vines are begin to fill in from the cold winter. It is very inspiring to see how the bare vines begin in the spring and [...]



The Garden City Hotels Celebrates Charles Lindberg With A Special Tasting Event

May 9th, 2009 | By LI Food Man | Category: Calender, Events, New, Things To Do, Wine Country

THE GARDEN CITY HOTEL’S REIN BAR & BISTRO HONORS 82ND ANNIVERSARY OF CHARLES LINDBERG’S TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT
Wine Flights and Dessert Specials from May 18 – May 24
The famous Garden City Hotel marks the 82nd anniversary of Charles Lindberg’s Trans-atlantic flight with cheese plates and wine flight pairings and desserts by Executive Chef Steven De Bruyn.  The [...]



Run for Rose This May At Macari Vineyards

May 1st, 2009 | By LI Food Man | Category: Calender, Events, Food On TV, Things To Do, Wine Country

During the month of May at Macari, $1 of every bottle of Rosé sold will be donated to the American Cancer Society.
Rosé and Empanadas
On Saturday, May 2nd & Sunday, May 10th (Mothers Day), Macari will be serving a glass of rosé with La Nena’s empanadas for $12.
$10 for Macari Wine Club Members.
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Cinco de Mayo Free Teguilla Tastings at Bottle Buys

Apr 30th, 2009 | By LI Food Man | Category: Calender, Wine Country

Bottle Buys
350 Glen Head Road
Glen Head, NY, 11545
(516) 676-8400
One of Long Island Presses favorite Wine stores Bottle Buys is putting on there sombreros and breaking out the tequila.
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo this weekend with FREE tequila tastings all weekend long!
Friday, May 1st:
1 - 4pm             1800 Silver Tequila
4 - 7pm             Cabo Wabo Reposado & Blanco Tequila
Saturday, [...]



Martha Clara gets ready for spring.

Apr 21st, 2009 | By LI Food Man | Category: Calender, Events, Wine Country

Events this Spring at Martha Clara
Every Tuesday Night LIVE MIC MC & Host Rocky Divello Bring Your Dinner, Talent & Friends
April
Sat 18th - 12-4pm Cooking Demo w/ MUMTAZ & TROY
Sat 25th
7:30 - 10pm Nashville Songwriter’s Association International SONGWRITER’S SHOWCASE
to benefit the East End Arts Council
Featuring Martha Trachtenberg, Steve Farella, Pete Colombo,
Jerry Silverstein and special guests
$10 [...]



How To Open A Wine Bottle Using The Wall

Feb 27th, 2009 | By LI Food Man | Category: Wine Country

I thought it couldn’t be done. But then thats why youtube was invented. These guys have problem. They have wine and not an opener.
Open Wine With A Wall

A Variation on this technique would be the shoe method.
Open Wine With A Shoe
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The Wine List

Feb 8th, 2009 | By LI Food Man | Category: Wine Country

This is a work in progress list of some of my favorite things to drink. 
Italy
Monti Rossi - Pinot Grigio
This is a house wine in one of our favorite restaurants  in NYC’s little italy.
Australia
Yellow Tail - Shiraz
The Yellow Tail wines are all priced reasonable enough to use them in cooking.  
Jacobs Creek - Shiraz
 
South Africa
Goats Do Roam
This is a good [...]



A Taste of South Africa In Your Wine Glass

Feb 8th, 2009 | By LI Food Man | Category: Wine Country

 
A few months ago I had a conversation with the owner of a wine store located in downtown NY city. I asked him quite simply “What do you drink?”
After a few expensive wine snob A list choices he went on to recommend that I start trying wines from South Africa. About a week later I was in [...]