{"id":5916,"date":"2010-04-25T09:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T14:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2010-04-25T09:50:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T14:50:48","slug":"queens_crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/04\/queens_crush.html","title":{"rendered":"Queens Crush!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/and_no_jokes_ab.html\">Staten Island<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/faster_vintage.html\">moved too slowly<\/a>, Queens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/lifestyle\/food\/2010\/04\/25\/2010-04-25_grape_expectations_queensgrown_wine_has_now_come_of_age.html\">picks up the slack<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Queens County Farm Museum in Floral Park is poised to uncork the inaugural bottles of its own wine, believed to be the first to feature city-grown grapes, next month.<\/p>\n<p>Farm Museum Director of Operations Gary Mitchell and staff have been growing Chardonnay, Merlot and Cabernet Franc grapes since 2004 on a tiny, 1-1\/2-acre plot on their Floral Park property.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Now New Yorkers can finally get a sip. The Farm Museum will debut the first of the 900 cases it has yielded so far at a wine auction inside their barn on May 18. They&#8217;ll unveil their 2006 Adriance Blend, a mix of Cabernet Franc and other grapes, as well as a 2006 Merlot and a 2007 Chardonnay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we do really well is Merlot,&#8221; boasted Mitchell, 49.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not Chateau de Fil, but it&#8217;s not swill, either,&#8221; said Amy Fischetti-Boncardo, director of the farm.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/queens\/bellerose\/farmmuseum\/index.htm\">Queens County Farm Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Staten Island has moved too slowly, Queens picks up the slack: The Queens County Farm Museum in Floral Park is poised to uncork the inaugural bottles of its own wine, believed to be the first to feature city-grown grapes, next month. Farm Museum Director of Operations Gary Mitchell and staff have been growing Chardonnay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","category-huzzah","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}