THE FESTIVAL TASTING at HARVEST
7:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.; Vin-IP ticket-holders enter at 6:30 p.m.
Large-format wines, exclusively bottled for bidding at HARVEST
More than 40 Long Island winemakers and more than 30 top regional chefs and food artisans come together to celebrate the wine-and-food bounty of Long Island Wine Country. Here, you can taste an exciting array of award-winning wines—including barrel samples of not-yet-released wines—and local, seasonal dishes from some of the region’s finest chefs, using all locally sourced produce and meat, fish and fowl.
Tickets are $125 per person if purchased by Sunday, August 10; $150 per person starting Monday, August 11, and at the door (if available)
Wines to swirl, sniff and sip
At the Festival Tasting, East End winemakers pour more than 200 world-class still, sparkling and dessert wines, including special selections and barrel samples of wines years before they will be commercially available. Long Island offers all your favorite vinis vinifera wines, plus a few lesser-known European varietals, in an elegant, food-friendly style all our own. In 2013, participating wineries included:
Anthony Nappa Wines McCall Wines
Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard Merliance
Bedell Cellars and Corey Creek Vineyards Old Field Vineyards
Bouké and Bouquet Wines One Woman Wines & Vineyards
Brooklyn Oenology Osprey’s Dominion
Castello di Borghese Palmer Vineyards
Channing Daughters Winery Peconic Bay Winery
Clovis Point Pellegrini Vineyards
Coffee Pot Cellars Pindar Vineyards
Croteaux Vineyards Reilly Cellars
Diliberto Winery Roanoke Vineyards
Duck Walk Vineyards Sannino Bella Vita Vineyard
Gramercy Vineyards Scarola Vineyards
Harbes Family Farm & Vineyard Sherwood House Vineyards
Jamesport Vineyards Shinn Estate Vineyards
Jason’s Vineyard Sparkling Pointe
Macari Vineyards Waters Crest Winery
Martha Clara Vineyards Wölffer Estate Vineyard
Dishes to savor
Long Island wines are among the most food-friendly in the world. Taste them with local, seasonal dishes from our region’s best chefs and food artisans. The Festival Tasting truly is a celebration of the height of our harvest season, featuring the bounty of our seas, skies and farms. In 2013, participating restaurants and purveyors included:
A Lure and A Mano Love Lane Kitchen
A Taste of the North Fork Madison and Main
Bistro 72 Main Restaurant & Oyster Bar
Comtesse Thérèse Bistro North Fork Chocolate Company
CoolFish Grille & Wine Bar North Fork Table and Inn
Cuvée at The Greenporter Hotel crimshaw Restaurant
First and South Stonewalls Restaurant
Fresh The Blue Duck Bakery Café
Gourmet Sorbet by the Sorbabes The Frisky Oyster
Grana Trattoria Antica The Riverhead Project
Jedediah Hawkins Inn Touch of Venice
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