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Thirty years is a blink in the life of a vineyard. In some aspects, these wineries are still finding their footing, looking for ways to distinguish themselves and earn praise from the finicky wine establishment. But they have preserved the near extinct agricultural heritage of Long Island and given residents and visitors alike something to drink...
...wineries are mostly located along two parallel roads: Route 25 (Main Road) and Route 48 (Sound Avenue), which run from Aquebogue to Orient. (See box on following page for directions from New York City and New England.) You've hit the right spot when you see WELCOME TO LONG ISLAND WINE COUNTRY signs along Route 25 in Aquebogue...
...visit to the East End of Long Island is complete without a stop at Ternhaven Cellars, a tiny shop located in Greenport. The winery is steps away from Greenport's many shops, galleries and eateries. Harold Watts, Ternhaven's owner and winemaker, is a retired Columbia University economics professor who used to tinker at winemaking in his Manhattan apartment. When he left teaching, he bought several acres and started a modest operation, the ultimate mom-and-pop winery of the area. Ternhaven's sign reads LAST WINERY BEFORE FRANCE--bragging rights earned by being the easternmost winery in the state...
When you get tuckered out, head to the Greenporter Hotel and Spa in Greenport. Inside you'll find La Cuvee, a restaurant and wine bar that offers one of the area's largest selections of Long Island wines and that is excellent with food-and-wine pairings. The staff can make reliable wine recommendations as well. It's also the perfect place to sip a wine that you might have missed along the way--if you're still up for imbibing...
...Sunshine Coast and 160 kilometers north of Brisbane, Noosa is the antidote to the strip malls, theme parks and gaudy casino- hotels that sprawl, in depressing profusion, along Australia?s northeast coast?just ask rockers Bob Geldof and Mick Jagger, British mogul Sir Richard Branson (who recently bought an island, no less, in the Noosa River upstream from the resort), Austrian tennis ace Thomas Muster or Driving Miss Daisy and Last Dance director Bruce Beresford. Noosa offers a boho lifestyle and an alluring menu of attractions, natural and man-made alike. The geography of the region has conspired to create...