As Long Island’s founding vineyard, Castello di Borghese Vineyard grows grapes and makes old-world-style wines on the North Fork. Ann Marie and Marco Borghese purchased the vineyard in 1999, and second-generation owner Giovanni Borghese now leads the small team. The vineyard handles each bottle by hand, from pruning and picking through bottling and distribution, with a focus on terroir and minimal manipulation.
Castello di Borghese VineyardLong Island’s founding vineyard, Castello di Borghese Vineyard makes old-world-style wines on the North Fork, from grapes it farms and handles by hand through bottling and distribution. Ann Marie and Marco Borghese purchased the vineyard in 1999, and second-generation sole owner Giovanni Borghese now leads the small team with a focus on terroir, minimal manipulation, and patient aging. The Cutchogue winery also welcomes visitors for tastings and intimate vineyard tours.CUTCHOGUE, NY
Mattebella VineyardsOn Long Island’s North Fork, Mattebella Vineyards is a small family farm and artisanal winery making old-world-style wines from its own vineyard in Southold. Mark and Christine Tobin purchased the property in 2005, and the estate’s 22-acre parcel is tended by hand with sustainable practices and no mechanical harvesting. Its original early-20th-century barn now houses a tasting cottage surrounded by gardens, where visitors can explore the vineyard and its wines.SOUTHOLD, NY
North Cliff Vineyards, LLCNorth Cliff Vineyards is a 20-acre Long Island vineyard and winery where Edmund Power grows the grapes and makes the wine himself as a vigneron. Near the Long Island Sound in Mattituck, the farm hand-harvests its fruit and lets native vineyard yeasts ferment the wine, while wild plants remain among the vines instead of being cleared with herbicides. The result is distinctly North Fork wine, including the first Long Island Merlot aged in bourbon barrels.CUTCHOGUE, NY
Raphael WineFounded from owner John Petrocelli’s vision and named for his father, Raphael Wine carries on a centuries-old family tradition of winemaking on Long Island’s North Fork. Its underground, Italian-monastery-inspired winery uses gravity flow and a natural approach to make wines that express the region’s maritime climate and glacial soils. The estate is among the few in the United States to harvest its grapes entirely by hand, with vineyard work guided by more than 30 years of experience in sustainable agriculture.PECONIC, NY