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Press Media Information about our Vineyard & WineryMedia inquires please contact: Wine Review - Long Island Wine of the Week Excerpts By Peter Gianotti - Newsday Thursday, February 25, 2010 The 2006 Castello di Borghese Barrel Fermented Chardonnay ($25.00) delivers some Burgundian style, in an elegant, buttery, lush Cutchogue wine that's ideal with lobster and salmon, even pasta with cream sauce. Standouts at a Showcase Excerpts By Howard G. Goldberg - Long Island Vines/New York Times Sunday, January 3, 2010 Large-scale consumer tastings of wines from all New York wine regions are rare. So when the City Winery, a winery-restaurant-entertainment space in downtown Manhattan, sponsored a four-hour showcase last month, about 375 people spent $45 each to sample the output. I confined myself to Long Island's 19 producer delegation. Castello di Borghese's Merlot-based 2008 Fleurette rosé ($14.99) was light and delicate; its winsome 2008 Riesling ($21.99) was redolent of peaches and apricots.
Touring Long Island's friendly wine country Excerpts By Nancy Trejos - The Washington Post Sunday, January 3, 2010 Shortly after I walked into Long Island's Castello di Borghese vineyard, I found myself in the company of a prince and princess. It's actually quite common at this small vineyard on the North Fork of Long Island, N.Y., for Castello di Borghese is owned by Italian-born Prince Marco Borghese, whose titled family traces its heritage to 9th-century Tuscany, and his Delaware-born wife, Ann Marie. And they make sure that one of them is always around to greet customers. That, the princess told me as we sat at a small blue table near the vineyard's tasting room one cold December morning, just before my tour with Marco, is what sets Long Island wine country apart from its more famous counterparts in California. (That would be Napa and Sonoma, but try not to utter those names on the Island.) "Every single person who comes here is greeted with eye contact," Ann Marie said, her blond hair flowing over her shoulders, her mustard-colored scarf tied delicately around her neck, her gold bee-shaped earrings distracting me with their glow. "It's a region that's much more friendly." I soon discovered that for myself. All of the other vineyard owners and winemakers I met during my two-day tour of the North Fork in the East End of Long Island, a region overshadowed by the much glitzier Hamptons, were as approachable and friendly as the Borgheses. It was nothing like what I'd experienced during a visit to Napa years ago. I started my wine tasting in Castello di Borghese's elegant and cozy tasting room in Cutchogue. To begin, Princess Ann Marie poured me some Founder's Field 2007 sauvignon blanc. It smelled of peaches and vanilla and tasted crisp and bright. I tried a few more whites before moving on to the 2005 Estate cabernet franc. It was spicy, with a hint of blackberries and cherries. The North Fork's first winery opened in 1973, but only in recent years has the region, a 90-minute drive from Manhattan, become a winemaking force. Each of its more than 30 vineyards produces between 600 and 60,000 cases of wine a year. The region ranked ninth on TripAdvisor's list of the top 10 North American wine destinations (beating Virginia, by the way). Its wines have won numerous awards. Its fresh seafood and produce have attracted a number of highly acclaimed chefs, who have opened restaurants here. In 2009, attendance at the vineyards' tasting rooms was up 20 percent from the year before, said Steven Bate, executive director of the Long Island Wine Council. The annual winterfest called "Jazz on the Vine" draws a number of respected musicians (this year's event kicks off Feb. 13).
Edible Eat, Drink, Local Week at Belleville in Brooklyn 88 Miles to Wine Pairing Heaven (aka Edible Week at Belleville) Jeanne Hodesh - Monday, 05 October 2009 Wine pairings are a tricky art, especially when you want to go local. And ever since since he and his partner took ownership of the Brooklyn bistro Belleville a year ago, Paul Kennedy had been searching for a local wine to pair with his chef’s market-driven men. Enter Castello di Borghese Vineyard and Winery from Cutchogue, New York. When the Long Island vineyard saw a list of restaurants who had signed up to participate in Edible’s Eat Drink Local Week, they took the opportunity to call on new clients, like Belleville, the lovely French bistro--the Park Slope space seriously channels Paris--on Fifth Ave. With a five course tasting menu already in mind, Kennedy tasted Borghese’s pinot noir, and knew with one sip that his search was over: He’d found a match, and from a vineyard just 88 miles from the restaurant’s door.
Castello di Borghese Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Franc August 4, 2009 | by Lorrie LeBeaux | Tasting Notes Castello di Borghese 2007 Sauvignon Blanc This wine is like spring and summer in a glass. It has a beautiful tropical nose with flavors of lemon, melon, and a touch of pineapple and minerals. The finish is a combination of spice and lemon. It has enough acidity to be paired with pasta in a butter and cream sauce. I could also see this with grilled or baked fish with a butter and lemon sauce, or just with a squeeze of lemon. A simple dessert with this wine would be grilled pineapple on skewers. Castello di Borghese 2006 Cabernet Franc This wine is the color of cranberries. The nose is of fresh cut flowers – perhaps violets combined with dark fruit aromas. Flavors of dark fruit, lead and spice define the flavor profile of this wine. The tannins beg for a juicy cheeseburger or steak with some marbling. I always like to make a sage or rosemary compound butter to top off a steak from the grill. I think these herbs will pair nicely with this wine. Lorrie LeBeaux writes Life’s Little Luxuries Newsletter @ lifeslittleluxuriesnewsletter.com
Profile of: Castello di Borghese Vineyard & Winery
About Marco and Ann Marie Borghese
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TV Special Presentation - Hamptons Television Winemaker's Walk - Tour and Wine Tasting Introduction to North Fork Wine Country
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When Marco and Ann Marie Borghese first visited the Long Island wine country on a Thanksgiving weekend in 1998, it was love at first sight. For Marco, the sweeping, bucolic farmlands, green fields and agriculturally diverse nature of the North Fork recalled the Tuscany of his youth, where for centuries his noble family had farmed and made wine. 
