{"id":8777,"date":"2009-12-08T10:43:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T14:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=8777"},"modified":"2020-12-19T01:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:44:21","slug":"uncork-new-york-wine-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/8777\/uncork-new-york-wine-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncorking Winter: Discovering What’s Hot Now and Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Warmed by City Winery\u2019s rustic space, which was transformed into one cavernous tasting room for the occasion, guests floated from station to station sipping in-state vinos made from grapes grown a mere train ride away. Over 35 wineries participated, including vendors from Hudson Valley, Finger Lakes, and Long Island. Speaking of which, in the new year, the Long Island Culture & Wine Winterfest will present six weekends of free jazz concerts at Long Island wineries between February and March. (With end-of-year festivities underway, we’ll definitely need to replenish our supply by then\u2014especially with all that mulled wine we’ll be making.)<\/p>\n

The Finger Lakes wineries highlighted their \u201csignature wine\u201d Riesling, while Long Island purveyors, like Bouk\u00e9 Wines left us charmed with creative blends and candy-striped labels. We also met NYC-based winery, Brooklyn Oenology<\/a> (BOE), which calls the cusp of Greenpoint and Williamsburg home. We especially liked BOE\u2019s artist-designed labels that peel away sticker-style so imbibers can enjoy the art beyond the last drop.<\/p>\n

Guests welcomed themselves to alcohol-free fare too, like tart cherry juice from greenmarket stalwart Red Jacket Orchards<\/a> and sweet-and-savory jams courtesy of Katchkie Farms. With patrons lined elbow-to-elbow for a taste of New York, we were not surprised to find Park Slope’s Palo Santo, a Latin restaurant-wine bar, clean of anticuchos de puerco<\/em> (skewered pig liver and kidney marinated in chili paste) by the time we reached their booth.<\/p>\n

The four-hour event left attendees in high spirits, and we suspect Silver Stream Winery\u2018s Furry Peach Apple Cider<\/em>\u2014a medley of hot apple cider, peach port, and cinnamon sticks\u2014had something to do with it. It\u2019s always bittersweet to leave a good party, but an invitation to the next one often alleviates the wait. See you in Long Island.<\/p>\n

Photos: Courtesy of the author<\/em><\/p>\n

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Anyone who\u2019s ever waited 12 months for a peppermint mocha knows our yen for some beverages are not only season specific, they are time-sensitive too. We look forward to light cocktails in spring, citrus notes in summer, and the aromas of cider to ease into autumn. On Saturday, we discovered a new wintertime favorite, mulled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,314,325],"tags":[15,1617,142,125,24,44,20,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-8777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"category-dining-nightlife","8":"category-new-york","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-events","11":"tag-festival","12":"tag-food","13":"tag-jazz","14":"tag-long-island","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-wine"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}