I am probably as eclectic about my wine pairings as I am about my food. This does not mean I do not end up testing my share of bad wine, but certainly along the way I end up picking up some really nice and unusual varietals.
Brotherhood Winery, yes, in our very own Hudson Valley boasts of being America's Oldest winery. It is quite a fun destination to visit, certainly if you like wine but also if you want to do some offbeat sight-seeing. Late this fall, when my friend was visiting from England, this is one of the destinations that I visited.
Despite all the green, this actually turned out to be quite a cold day!
If you trapeze down the cellar and the wine displays you are led through the various generations that give you a crash course on wine marketing and of course a good sense of how the winery has progressed down the ages. The "Farell era" that was the high tide of the winery, seemed to be quite influential both in marketing the winery in terms of wine parties and well as in terms of some of the more unusual favorites such as the May wine (a pink strawberry wine) and the Holiday wine (a spiced rose) both these wines are high on my list since I do find them rather unusual.
Well, the "new" Brotherhood, is actually owned by someone of a Chillean descent that has expanded the winery to more foreign flavors. It also does have a signature creation called "Marriage" that marries chardonay grapes (25%) with cabernet sav (75%) grapes, producing a unique and very eclectic wine. My friend was happy that she now had an interesting gift to take back home.
Other wines of note, were their Reisling and Honey Wine. Both these wines are really good options with Indian food.
They label their barrels in very clear manner. As you walk through you actually see the entire assembly line, the bottles, how they are filled, dusted and sealed.
The winery has a nice very warm setting and the wine tastings were very generous and descriptive. In fact, just this makes the winery a fun place to visit, if you want to try some good interesting wine and do not want to pay wine bar prices this just might be where you want to go.
The space is really nice and pretty, so a picnic on a nice day would hardly be out of place.
And, as requested by readers, here is the information on the destination,
They label their barrels in very clear manner. As you walk through you actually see the entire assembly line, the bottles, how they are filled, dusted and sealed.
The winery has a nice very warm setting and the wine tastings were very generous and descriptive. In fact, just this makes the winery a fun place to visit, if you want to try some good interesting wine and do not want to pay wine bar prices this just might be where you want to go.
The space is really nice and pretty, so a picnic on a nice day would hardly be out of place.
And, as requested by readers, here is the information on the destination,
Brotherhood Winery,
100 Brotherhood Plaza Drive
Washingtonville, NY 10992
845 496 3661
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