The New York Cork Club's March 2010 Selections

This month's selections: Red Newt Cellars 2007 Sawmill Creek Cabernet Franc and Lucas Vineyards 2008 Dry Riesling

 By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief

Today I'm happy to announce our New York Cork Club selections for March: Red Newt Cellars 2007 Sawmill Creek Cabernet Franc and Lucas Vineyards 2008 Dry Riesling.

If you read this site, you've probably already seen the reviews (here and here) so I won't go into the notes again, but I will say that I'm proud to have each in the club.

Not familiar with the New York Cork Club? You can read about it, but the quick and dirty of it is that we've partnered with BacchusWineOnline.com to build a wine club that features only wines made in New York -- making more accessible to people around the country.

Over the years, we've chosen wines from each of the state's four major wine regions and continue to seek out the most interesting, most unique and smallest-lot wines -- many of which you can't get your hands on outside of a winery's tasting room.

You can sign up for a month or for a year and cancel at any time. And while the price varies from month-to-month depending on the wines selected, we always keep it under $60 and often far less.

Interesting in signing up? You can do so on the Bacchus website.

Comments

[Mark's Wine Clubs]

Lenn,

Although technically a competitor in the sense that we are both running wine clubs, I certainly appreciate that your approach is similar to ours in being focused on either smaller production or not highly distributed wineries. Just by the fact that you're shipping a Cab Franc in itself shows some amount of courage as, at least here in California, it isn't exactly a classic varietal.

[steveg]

I am a club member, and I must say, the club has greatly enhanced my enjoyment of NY wines. The best part is that some of the wines are of such limited production that even though I paid attention to the reviews, by the time a get to the vineyard they would be gone. I get my hands on some of these good bottles that I never would have access to.

I am now a club member at 3 or 4 vineyards across NY State, and I believe each membership stemmed from one of the NY Cork Club selections that I tried.

OK enough! I like the club. SG :)

[Paul Z]

I got a membership as a Christmas gift, and it's been fun so far. I look forward to this month's shipment.

[Lenn Thompson]

Really glad to hear that you guys are enjoying it so much. We're looking to expand it as we get further into spring, so we should have some fun stuff coming up!