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Sunny days call for Long Island pink in your glass. (Photo credit: Madison Fender)
While we are big proponents of drinking pink all year round, we can’t deny that summer in the Hamptons and on the South Fork’s sandy shores is prime rosé time. But for such a seemingly simple wine, there’s some confusion (and misinformation) on what, exactly, rosé is, outside of the notion that it comes in some shade of pink. Luckily for us her eon the South Fork, we have two wineries that not only make across-the-board outstanding wines in general, they each happen to have a penchant for particularly good pink, too.
Take a listen to this blush-busting podcast on allure (and facts about) rosé…
Amy Zavatto is the Editor-in-Chief for southforker, northforker and Long Island Wine Press. She's a wine, spirits, and food journalist whose work appears in Wine Enthusiast, InsideHook.com, MarthaStewart.com, the New York Post, Liquor.com, SevenFifty Daily, Imbibe, Men’s Journal and many others. She's the author of The Big Book of Bourbon Cocktails, Prosecco Made Me Do It: 60 Seriously Sparkling Cocktails, Forager’s Cocktails: Botanical Mixology with Fresh, Natural Ingredients, and The Architecture of the Cocktail. She is a respected judge for the American Craft Spirits Association’s annual small-production spirits competition, and has moderated numerous panels on the topics of wine, spirits, cocktails, and regional foodways. She is the former Deputy Editor for the regional celebratory publications, Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn, as well as the former Executive Director of the Long Island Merlot Alliance. She is a member of the New York chapter of the international organization of women leaders in food, wine, and spirits, Les Dames d’Escoffier. The proud daughter of a butcher, Amy is originally from Shelter Island, N.Y., where she developed a deep respect for the East End’s natural beauty and the importance of preserving and celebrating it and its people.
