On Saturday November 22 I attended the 2nd annual NYC Autumn Wine Festival. Last year I attended the first annual Autumn wine fest and had a surprisingly good time so I was looking forward to this event. For a consumer tasting some interesting and good juice were poured at a cool venue in Battery Park. This years event took place at a different venue, the Broad Street Ballroom near the Stock Exchange downtown. It’s another one of those former banks with plenty of marble and mosaics that have been reinvented as an event venue, it’s a much smaller space than the Conrad Hotel where the event was held last year. Another more important difference was the quality of the wines served at the event. Nowhere near the quality of juice served at last years event, though a bit better than last weeks Brooklyn Crush (run by the same company). I was disappointed. There were two sessions and I attended the afternoon session and they got a good crowd.
Whites
NV Juve Y Camps Reserva de la Familia Brut
2012 Alta Alella Privat Cava.
2013 Lusenti Pinot Grigio Frizzante “Fiocco di Rose”
2012 Lepage Bourg Cote St. Jacques Gris
2013 Bricco del Sole Chardonnay
2012 Pesquie Cuvee des Terrasses Blanc
Reds
2010 Pyramid Valley “Calvert Vineyard” Pinot Noir
2012 Foxglove Zinfandel Paso Robles
2013 Mortilla Frappato “Sephora”
2010 Rouge Bleu Delletent Rhone Blend (Biodynamic)
2013 Monteforche Lo Sfuso di Collina
2012 Vallana Barbera
2011 Kermit Lynch Cypress Cuvee Cotes du Rhone
2011 El Enmigo Cabernet Franc
NV Lini Rosso Lambrusco
2012 Mohua Pinot Noir
2009 Marques de Caceres Reserva
2010 Cybele Rhone Red Blend Paso Robles.
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