best white wine not dry
The Finger Lakes region is becoming best known for her Rieslings in addition to some wonderful Chardonnay and other varieties of white wine. If you prefer your white wine on the dry side, it may help to target specific wineries when you come to visit the Finger Lakes vineyards. Our innkeepers have put together their recommendations for the best wineries for dry white wine in the Finger Lakes. Heron Hill wins my recommendation for a dry white wine hands down! Not only is the Riesling deserving of the price you will pay, the view you see when you look over Keuka Lake is priceless. And if you don't want a really dry wine their Semi-dry Reisling is truly a palate pleaser. - Ambroselli's Villa Serendip Heron Hill's dry white wines are great. They have two choices of Chardonnay; one aged in oak barrels and the other in steel. I actually prefer the one aged in steel. their Game Bird brand has a nice dry white as well. All of them perfect We like Heron Hill Riesling.
Located on the southwestern hill of Keuka Lake. Jack and Donna - Oliver Phelps Bed and Breakfast Herman J. Wiemer Vineyard I nominate Herman Wiemer Winery as a superb representation of Finger Lakes dry whites. Both their standard Chardonnay and reserve are excellent. They also have an estate white blend, and dry riesling, the variety for which Wiemer is best known. The celebrated european winemaker, Wiemer, is a pioneer in the development of the vinifera grape stock and continues his research and development on this aspect of the industry at his separate nursery at the same location. Visitors can also tour the vines and ponds and his 6 acre nursery on the property. The winery is located about 11 miles north of Watkins Glen on route 14. ~ Bob and Barbara Schiesser - Sunrise Landing Bed and Breakfast Herman J. Wiemer Vineyards (in Dundee on the west side of Seneca Lake) is widely-known for his wines made in the European tradition. In fact, we have many German-born friends who make Wiemer's a destination when they need to restock their supply of dry whites.
Hermann, who was born in Germany, arrived in the United States in 1968 already well versed in the European tradition of fine winemaking. To this heritage he added the skill of grafting fragile vinifera vines onto sturdy American rootstock. ~ Donna Cunningham - Yale Manor B&B Chateau Lafayette Reneau - on the East side of Seneca Lake, makes some extraordinary white vinifera wines, in particular Dry and Semi-dry Rieslings and Chardonnays. They have won the Governor's Cup a couple times in the last five or six years for the Best wine in the State of NY. ~ Terry - Keuka Overlook Bed and Breakfast Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars - Has several outstanding varieties of dry white wine. Their Dry Riesling is quite amazing. Dry wines in general are their specialty and are definitely worth the visit, from anywhere. Located on the East side of Seneca Lake, in Lodi. ~ Steve & Kathy Wirt - Wine Country Cabins B&B Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellars - All of Dr Frank's Vinifera Wines are good, but his dry white is exceptional.
~ Burney & Susan Baron Los Gatos Bed & Breakfast
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best red wines of 2011Diet/NutritionHere's What Happens When You Drink Red Wine Every NightMandy OaklanderFor more, visit TIME Health.Alcohol is the Goldilocks of the nutrition world. Too much can be destructive to your health, raising your blood pressure and your risk of developing several kinds of cancer. Too little may hold you back from some of the benefits that moderate drinkers enjoy, like lower incidence of cardiovascular disease, mortality and type-2 diabetes.The amount that’s just right, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, might be a nightly glass of wine with dinner—for some people, anyway.
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel wanted to look at how safe and effective it is for a specific group of people—those with well-controlled type-2 diabetes and who had a low risk for alcohol abuse—to drink moderately. People with type-2 diabetes are more likely than the general population to develop cardiovascular disease and have lower levels of heart-protective HDL cholesterol, the authors note.They chose 224 people who fit this profile, and who didn’t drink wine currently, then assigned them to start drinking one of three things. At dinner, the people in the study were told to drink five ounces of one of the following beverages: mineral water, dry white wine or dry red wine. Under the guidance of dietitians, they also followed a Mediterranean diet without calorie restrictions—and kept it up for two years.Intermittently, they took questionnaires and were subjected to follow-ups, including blood draws at the start of the study, six months in and at 24 months, so the scientists could look at biomarkers of glycemic control, lipids and liver function.
RelatedDiet/NutritionHere’s Why It Feels Like You Always Have Room for DessertDiet/NutritionHere’s Why It Feels Like You Always Have Room for DessertThey found that the red wine drinkers had significantly increased their levels of good HDL cholesterol and had a more beneficial cholesterol ratio compared to the group that drank water. They were also the only group to experience a significant drop in components of metabolic syndrome. People who drank either red or white wine also reported better sleep quality than the group that drank water, and the researchers found no significant adverse effects with any group.(It's worth making it explicit that those who drank alcohol, drank just one glass per night, with meals.)“This is what I’ve been telling people for years based on observational data,” says Dr. James O’Keefe, chief of preventive cardiology at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, who was not involved in the study. “It seems to me that my patients who drink red wine in moderation tend to do better, and this really solid gold-standard kind of research confirms our intuitions about the beneficial effects of moderate alcohol intake.”
O’Keefe wasn’t surprised that the best results came from the group drinking red wine—which had resveratrol levels 13-fold higher than the white wine, according to the study. “Partly it’s the benefits of the alcohol, but red wine also contains a lot of unique antioxidants that are hard to get other places,” O'Keefe says. And pairing it with dinner, like they did in the study, is key.“If you have a glass of red wine with your evening meal tonight, your peak blood sugar, if you measured it an hour later, would be about 30% lower than if you hadn’t had the wine,” O’Keefe says. The post-meal spike in sugar is one of Americans’ main sources of inflammation, which contributes to everything from diabetes to dementia to heart disease and arthritis, he adds. “It makes your system more able to sop up the sugar and the calories that you’re consuming in the meal if you have a little alcohol before,” he says.But there’s a disclaimer, of course. Drinking every day can be a "slippery slope that a lot of people can’t safely navigate," O’Keefe says.