North Fork Weekend

Holy moly what a weekend! The wine night ladies invaded the North Fork of Long Island.

A few of us went early for a fabulous dinner at North Fork Table & Inn. The next day more women joined us for a day of wine tasting including a wonderful luncheon at Croteaux Vineyard.

The North Fork Table & Inn

Thanks again to B for getting us the reservation. What a night of food & wine!

Here's a blurb from the restaurant's website:
The restaurant's menu focus is seasonally inspired featuring locally grown biodynamic and organic produce, the freshest seafood from the pristine Peconic Bay and Long Island Sound and award winning North Fork artisanal cheese. Increasingly distinguished and awarded Long Island wines are highlighted on the wine list, as well as their national and international counterparts.

We were overwhelmed with our choices. So we decided that each of us would order something different, take a bite and pass our plates to the left. Every plate was delicious. Were stuffed to the gills and still full the next morning. It was totally indulgent and totally worth it!


The Next Day We met up with the rest of the girls for a day of wine tasting. Our first stop was a luncheon at Croteaux Vineyards.
They spoiled us rotten! What a beautiful place! They had such a great set up for us and by the time we finished the tour of the grounds and their home, their daughter Ivy playing the piano for us, we were all ready to move in!
As for the wine - Croteaux does roses. Beautiful, light French style roses in bottles designed by Michael the owner and winemaker. We tasted all three of their merlot roses, a 2007 bottle of their #3, a sparkling rose and their homemade sangria. Delicious!
As you can see by the pictures, i LOVED every inch of their property.


I'm not sure how any vineyard would be able to follow that. So we went to the Tasting Room where we could taste wines from a few vineyards at once. i also wanted Schneider Vineyards wine since they don't have a tasting room.
We didn't love any of the wines we tasted on the menu and frankly the lady behind the counter was odd and kind of rude so we weren't very excited to buy (i did grab myself a bottle of Potato Barn). BUT we did meet the Anderson family from Onabay Vineyards who were tasting their wines. They were a great family and sent us all off with bottles of their 2007 Chardonnay. Thank you!!

After that we went to Lieb Cellars. Nice to see the contrast of a bigger winery and more public tasting. The wines were good, a nice Chardonnay if i remember correctly. (ladies, feel free to correct me!)

And finally off we went to Shinn Estate Vineyards. We happened to arrive at the perfect time and ended up in our own little private tasting room. I had previously tried and enjoyed the Wild Boar Doe from here and was excited to try more. Especially after we started our meal at North Fork Table & Inn the night before with Shinn's Coalescence (an odd blend of sauvignon blanc, chardonnay, viognier and merlot blanc) and finished our meal with Nemesis, a pinot noir. Lots of other good wines to choose from here including a nice Chardonnay.


To end the lovely weekend we ate dinner at A Mano an italian restaurant nearby and ate far too much but had a nice Lenz merlot to finish us off!

Thanks ladies for such a great time. It was definitely a special weekend!!!