Journal category

Visiting

Articles and guides filed under Visiting.

• Long Island Wineries: The Complete First-Timer's Guide — If this is your first Long Island wine trip, read this before you book a single tasting. Forty years of local lessons compressed into a single planning guide.
• Long Island Wine Tasting Etiquette: A Beginner's Guide — Long Island tasting rooms are friendlier than Napa and less stuffy than France — but the unwritten rules still matter. Here is what a first-timer needs to know.
• The 8 Best Long Island Wineries for Beginners — Eight tasting rooms with welcoming staff, accessible flights, and a clear story to tell — the right list for a first-ever wine country visit.
• Best Time to Visit Long Island Wine Country (Month-by-Month) — Every month on the North Fork has its own personality — and its own traps. Here's what to expect month by month, from frozen February tastings to the August crush and beyond.
• First-Time Visitor's Guide to the North Fork (2026) — Forty years of pouring at the bar, sitting in Route 25 traffic on a Saturday in October, and showing first-time visitors around — distilled into one honest guide.
• The North Fork in Fall — A Local's Harvest-Season Guide (2026) — Harvest season is the best — and busiest — time to visit Long Island wine country. Here's how a four-decade local plans the perfect fall weekend.