Get Growing

Long time back the locals figured out that the soil here produced pretty good if not great grapes for wine.  Little, I'd guess you'd call them orchards, abounded and over time those who prefer a bit more organization moved nature's free form to a bazillion feet of organized rows.  To be honest, we like it both ways as Long Island wines are super and the farmers had the elegant free forms that filled the family needs.  By the way, our tasting today (3p-6p 132 Front St., Greenport) has a nice variety of what we think of as really good "organized" wines.

We don't dislike the looks of the vineyards one bit. In our opinion, that order and symmetry is borderline fantastic. The single plant, spaced well from its neighbors looks all the better for it. Distinguished. Solitary. Elegant.

Yes. That's it.  Elegant.  Get growing.