{"id":953,"date":"2018-05-28T19:51:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T19:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2018-05-28T19:51:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T19:51:30","slug":"macari-vineyards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Macari Vineyards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once you leave New York\u2019s Long Island Expressway on your voyage to Long Island\u2019s Wine Country in the North Fork area, among the first wineries you will come to is Macari Vineyards (www.macariwines.com).\u00a0 It offers a warm welcome and some of the better wines we have tasted in the region.<\/p>\n

Macari\u2019s vineyards were once a potato farm, as is true of much of the North Fork. It is still family-owned and run and it is, in a sense, still a farm since they raise a herd of cattle as well as growing grapes.\u00a0 They are exponents of biodynamic wine making,(which we don\u2019t really understand, but we must say that biodynamic vineyards often produce excellent wines).<\/p>\n

Macari has two tasting rooms: the original one in Mattituck and another in Cutchogue.\u00a0 The latter is only open in the summer tourist high season; Mattituck is open year-round.\u00a0 It is this one that is the basis for our comments, although the wines are the same in both locations.<\/p>\n

The tasting room is quite large, with a high-vaulted ceiling that can absorb noise when things get busy on summer weekends.\u00a0 Yet despite the massive stone fireplace and all the exposed wood there\u2019s somehow a sense of intimacy to the place.\u00a0 Displays of bottles of wine on boards stretched between barrels reinforce the rusticity of the setting.<\/p>\n

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The wines available for tasting shows Macari to its best effect.\u00a0 The reserve list includes a very creditable Sauvignon Blanc, a Syrah and the stars of the show: Macari\u2019s Cabernet Franc and their Bordeaux blend, Bergen Road.\u00a0 These last two have depth and power that show how far Long Island wine making has come in recent years.\u00a0 Interestingly, although the blend of the Bergen Road differs from year to year, in the 2014 available now they have four of the five Bordeaux grapes, except<\/em> Cabernet Franc.\u00a0 Also, for those like Lucie who enjoy a glass of Ros\u00e9, make sure to taste theirs.\u00a0 She loved it and find that it tastes like a ros\u00e9 from Provence, which is quite a compliment.<\/p>\n

They are well aware that Cabernet Franc is their flagship grape.\u00a0 Over the course of the summer, Macari hosts several events highlighting their twenty years of Cabernet Franc.\u00a0 This is the same grape that is used in the majority of the wines made in Pomerol, and unfair comparison to be sure, but an indication that Macari is aiming high with the wines that have garnered them their highest praise.<\/p>\n

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Macari\u2019s porch and the pizza truck<\/em><\/p>\n

Macari makes it easy to spend an extended time at their winery.\u00a0 As you enter their tasting room, there is a refrigerated cabinet with cheeses and charcuterie, which you can eat on their spacious and well appointed porch.\u00a0 If that\u2019s not enough, the winery has arranged for a pizza-making truck to pull up alongside the building.\u00a0 And of course, you enjoy it \u00a0with a bottle of Macari wine!\u00a0 We don\u2019t think we\u2019d make a special trip from Manhattan just for a pizza and a bottle of wine, but if we had a vacation home on the North Fork or the Hamptons, it would be a very tempting way to while away a baking hot summer afternoon in the shade of Macari\u2019s porch.<\/p>\n

Macari is one of the Long Island wineries that gives evidence to the potential of what the North Fork can produce.\u00a0 Macari Vineyards \u00a0is offering a fine wine tasting experience today and the future of this winery is yet to discover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once you leave New York\u2019s Long Island Expressway on your voyage to Long Island\u2019s Wine Country in the North Fork area, among the first wineries you will come to is Macari Vineyards (www.macariwines.com).\u00a0 It offers a warm welcome and some of the better wines we have tasted in the region. Macari\u2019s vineyards were once a … Continue reading Macari Vineyards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}