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Long Island Wine Tours, a way to Experience the Long Island Wineries

03/27/10

Long Island Wine Tours, a way to Experience the Long Island Wineries

Long island wine tours are a way to visit the vineyards and wineries on Long Island. What? wineries on Long Island? The region has grown quite a bit in the last 25 years from 1 winery to over 30. This Nassau and Suffolk county regions happen to have great conditions for growing grapes which end up producing some of the best world class wines.

The scenery is also one that makes touring these vineyards a pleasure. The wineries and vineyards in the region include:

Ackerly Pond Vineyards
Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard
Bedell Cellars
Bella Vita Vineyard
Bouké Wines
Bridge Vineyards
Castello di Borghese Vineyard & Winery
Channing Daughters Winery
Christiano Family Vineyards
Clovis Point
Comtesse Thérèse
Corey Creek Vineyards
Croteaux Vineyards
Diliberto Winery
Duck Walk Vineyards
Duck Walk Vineyards North
Harbes Family Farm & Vineyard
Jamesport Vineyards
Jason's Vineyard
Laurel Lake Vineyards
Lieb Family Cellars
Long Island Meadery
Loughlin Vineyards
Macari Vineyards & Winery
Martha Clara Vineyards
Mattebella Vineyards
Onabay Vineyard
One Woman Vineyards
Osprey's Dominion Vineyards
Palmer Vineyards
Peconic Bay Winery
Pellegrini Vineyards
Pindar Vineyards
Pugliese Vineyards
Raphael
Roanoke Vineyards
Sherwood House Vineyards
Shinn Estate Vineyards
Sparkling Pointe
Suhru Wines
The Grapes of Roth
The Old Field Vineyards
Vineyard 48
Waters Crest Winery
Wölffer Estate

Many of these wineries have won awards in all kinds of awards in the many different wine competitions that are held in the region as well as around the country.

To tour some of these wineries, you can use one of the many wine tour companies in the region. Some of them are:

Long Island Wine Tours
Elegant Wine Tours
Top of the World Limo
Red Carpet Limo
East End Wine Tasting Tours
LI Vineyard Tours

As you can see, there are a range of ways to experiene the vineyards, from luxury to the standard tour. I'm not sure if there are any bicycle tours of these vineyards, if so, please comment and let me know.

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Wine Tours

Almost all of the major wine regions usually sponsor a wine tour, or have one of their own with their own winery. To get a better experience of the wines in a particular area, it is usually a good idea to take the wine tours that go to several wineries. They can be as simple as a bike tour to an expensive yacht trip.