• September 14, 2011

  • by Jim Merritt, Special to Newsday

Large-scale consumer tastings of wines from all New York wine regions are rare. So when the City Winery, a winery-restaurant-entertainment space in downtown Manhattan, sponsored a four-hour showcase last month, about 375 people spent $45 each to sample the output. I confined myself to Long Island’s 19 producer delegation.
Castello di Borghese’s Merlot-based 2008 Fleurette rosé ($14.99) was light and delicate; its winsome 2008 Riesling ($21.99) was redolent of peaches and apricots.

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