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An Auspicious Beginning For a North Fork Vineyard

The New York Times
Long Island Vines
July 31, 2005
By Howard G. Goldberg

…The 2000 Merlot….is a great wine – a mouth-filling, lip-smacking blockbuster…This dark sinewy red offers a huge bouquet, dense fruity, velvety tannins and an underpinning of virtually sweet wood from French oak barrels….
The 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon….is no less powerfully aromatic and attractive. Flashes of dark licorice flavor and mint ignite its sumptuous, juicy, crushed-berry flavor….