Lenz Winery

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The Lenz Winery is located in Peconic, on the North Fork of Long Island, in New York. This is a distinct geographic region as well as a designated BATF appellation for US wines.

Founded in 1978, the winery has some of the most mature vineyards in the region, or - - given the extensive replanting of California vineyards to avoid further damage from the phylloxera louse - - in the country. We grow only vinifera grape varieties: chardonnay, gewürztraminer, merlot, cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc and pinot noir. We have nearly 70 acres of vineyards, with the following approximate acreage per variety.

At Lenz, our philosophy in the vineyard is high-touch. We are interventionists and we intervene, at great cost in time and effort, to micro-manage each vine to ripeness each year. Leaf removal, shoot thinning, cluster thinning, crop reduction, triple catch wires, super-attentive pest and fungus control (our "open canopy" approach keeps fungus problems to a minimum), all combine to add cost (unfortunately) but to ensure fully ripe grapes of the highest quality.

In the winery, our philosophy is low-touch, though not taken to dogmatic extremes. We do not subscribe to the current vogue in which wineries claim not to intervene at all in the natural process of winemaking. If a wine needs an acid adjustment, it gets it. If reduction threatens a sulphide problem, we fix it. If it needs filtering, we filter it. And we use cultured, not wild yeast to start the fermentation. Beyond that, we want the wines to express the character we've brought out in the vineyard by developing full "varietal ripeness".

When booking your tour through All Star Limousine, You will receive the following:
10% discount on 4 bottles or more
15% discount on cases
Free Tastings - $2 for top shelf

For more information on The Lenz Winery, please visit their website:
The Lenz Winery Website