Wine Country: 'Amalgam of Metropolitan Influences, Agricultural Traditions'

Long Island Wine Country can rack up another favorable review as a destination from a respected wine publication.

This week, Wine Enthusiast magazine lauded the North and South forks, with their beaches, fishing, rolling farmland and preservation as “wine country unlike any region in America … just a two-hour drive from Manhattan, it’s a unique amalgam of metropolitan influences against a core of hearty, agricultural tradition.”

Restaurants with farm-to-table philosophies such as North Fork Table in Southold and Noah’s in Greenport are also praised as are B&Bs like Jedediah Hawkins in Jamesport.

“The South Fork is home to only three wineries, but with outstanding producers like Wölffer Estate Vineyard and Channing Daughters, it’s well worth a day trip,” writes reviewer Anna Lee C. Iijima.

Read the full story on Wine Enthusiast here.