Mar 20, 2015
Wine Veteran Craig Camp & Tart Collections’ Dana Feingold
Master of Fine Wine Veteran, Craig Camp (Cornerstone Cellars & Rhone Rangers) and Tart Collections Co-Founder, Dana Feingold.
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Wine Veteran Craig Camp & Tart Collections’ Dana Feingold
Master of Fine Wine Veteran, Craig Camp (Cornerstone Cellars & Rhone Rangers) and Tart Collections Co-Founder, Dana Feingold.
#235: Drink Wine at Demarest Hill Winery & Meet the Owner
#235: Drink Wine at Demarest Hill Winery & Meet the Owner
Of all the wineries in the Albany/Mid-Hudson New York areas, Demarest Hill Winery makes my Top 5 list. (A summary for readers following along...I like Hudson-Chatham best for the taste of the Baco Noir, Robibero Winery for the view/atmosphere, and then there's this place!)
Demarest Hill is located in the garage of this little old Italian man, Francesco, who just might be the funniest and most adorable grandpa on the planet. The winery has wines, liquors (i.e., grappa, brandy, sherry) and even some balsamic vinegar, etc.
They say that the tasting fee is something like $5 for a taste of 6 items of your choice, but to be honest, if you get Francesco, he'll just keep plying you with samples (I think once I had like 18 samples for that $5 fee!) until you find something you love, and then you'll walk out of here with a armful of things.
Once I stopped in here, and was having a tasting with a younger gentleman. Francesco walked in and yelled in his thick Italian accent, "Don't sell them anything! All the wines are awful! If you don't buy, leaves more for me to drink!" HA!
The website has a list of all their normal list of wines/liquors/etc.: http://www.demaresthillwinery.com
At Winter's End: Paso Robles
Submission and Photography by Sarah
Though the vineyards are starting to come to life in Monterey County, we're still watching for budbreak down here in Paso Robles. But spring is truly springing, as evidenced by our cover crop that's been shooting up between the vine rows after recent rains. The cover crop we use to minimize soil erosion and increase water infiltration is a special variety of barley called "Aravat." You can't cook with it (I already asked!) but it certainly gets the job done in the vineyard.
Foxtail, a native grass, is also sprouting up alongside the vines.