Might as well mention here that we spent some time on the North Fork earlier this month, visiting the Shinn Estate, Sherwood House (right next door to Shinn in Mattituck), the Tasting Room in Peconic, and then dipping down to the South Fork to visit Channing Daughters. We bought wine everywhere (Comtesse Thérèse at the Tasting Room).
We spent two nights in the farmhouse and Shinn, and were blown away by how much farmland is still there - OK, now that's where we're moving. Chatted with Barbara Shinn and were free to walk the vineyard which we did a couple of times (and sat out by the vines all dark and starry one night with a bottle of their 9 Barrels. Be there).
Also loved Sherwood House. The vineyard is zoned for agriculture only, no permanent structures, so the tasting room is a shed on blocks and a bunch of rustic (ahem) furniture in the field and under a tent. Walked in from Shinn. (Sherwood's built a 2nd tasting room, a real one with walls and floors and all that somewhere else: we ain't going.)
We're going back to Shinn 9/11 for a vertical tasting of their Merlot. And staying again at the farmhouse.
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