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Long Island's longest-tenured winemaker weighs in on what makes the North Fork so unique for fine wine production.
Growing up a stone's throw away from New York City in a small house on suburban Long Island, Richard Olsen-Harbich always dreamed of being a farmer. After graduating from Cornell with a degree in viticulture, he found himself back on the Island at the heart of an emerging wine region that was struggling to find itself. Starting from the ground up with little information or experience, Olsen-Harbich began a lifelong quest to master the art and science of growing wine grapes less than 90 miles from Manhattan.
In the last half-century, the North Fork's bucolic seaside towns and humble potato farms were transformed into one of this country's most compelling agricultural success stories, garnering praise from wine critics around the world. Olsen-Harbich charts the meteoric rise of North Fork winemaking from the historic failures of colonial times to the modern triumph of becoming one of the most important wine-producing districts on the East Coast. Through a poetic interweaving of personal anecdotes with scientific reporting about climate, soils, geology, and botany, Olsen-Harbich drills deep into the topic, giving the world a new language for talking about wine. In doing so, he redefines what it means to make wine in the New World.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
Part 1. The Region
History
The Land
The Soil
The Sea
The Sun
The Aquifer
Climate and Weather
Growing Degree Days
The North Fork vs. the Hamptons
Terroir
Music
Minerality
American Viticulture Areas (AVAs)
Winemaking
Balance and Style
Native Yeast
Natural Wine and Biodynamics
Organic Winegrowing
Sustainability
Flaws
Sulfites
Zen and the Art of Winemaking
Part 2. Spontaneous Fermentation
Climate Change
It Takes a Vineyard
No Women, No Wine
The Local Revolution
The French Connection
Wines of Mass Vinification
Wine and Beer
Our Sea-Washed, Sunset Gates
Poseurvores
Fashionably Wine
Take Me Out to the Vineyard
The Wild Oenophiles
Wine Ratings
Myth-Busting
Tasting Notes
Wine Futures
Conclusion
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
