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Southold
07/27/19 6:00am

Inside bee rancher Laura Klahre’s Blossom Meadow Farm

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Bee rancher Laura Klahre at her Southold farm. (Credit: David Benthal)

The berries at Blossom Meadow Farm are handpicked twice daily. The first picking occurs shortly after owner and bee rancher Laura Klahre wakes. Rolling out of bed, still in pajamas, she wanders straight out to the two-acre farm field surrounding the Southold homestead she shares with her winemaker husband, Adam Suprenant. 

Free-growing patches of grassland buzz with life as native pollinators fly from flower to flower and berry to berry, organically fostering higher yields and higher-quality fruit for the farm’s assorted hand-jarred jams.  (more…)

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Cutchogue
08/11/18 6:10am

Coffee Pot Cellars launches ‘Merlot for Monarchs’ campaign

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The Merlot for Monarchs campaign launched in late July. (Credit: Cyndi Murray)

Laura Klahre lights up when she talks about the power of pollinators. The Southold beekeeper and owner of Blossom Meadow Farm is a leader on the subject and even hosted a TED Talk on increasing food production by using native pollinators, which has been viewed more than 2,000 times on YouTube.

She often shares her insights with vineyard goers at her Cutchogue tasting room, Coffee Pot Cellars, which she co-owns with husband and award-wining winemaker Adam Suprenant. Time after time, Klahre notes that, “So many people care when they are informed. It is heartwarming.” (more…)

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Cutchogue
03/01/17 6:00am

Coffee Pot Cellars Winasaur gets its own song and music video

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The Coffee Pot Cellars Winasaur — everyone’s favorite Brontosaurus-shaped, cork-studded topiary — now has its own song and music video.

For those who don’t know, the Winasaur, a seven-foot tall, 18-foot long public art project, is the brainchild of Coffee Pot Cellars co-owner Laura Klahre. Tasting room visitors and Coffee Pot fans are asked to decorate used wine corks, which are wrapped around the sculpture to “flesh out” its body.

To date, 3,100 corks have been strung along the Winasaur’s frame. Klahre estimates it will take about 6,000 more corks and a year and a half to complete it.

A song, she thought, was a natural progression for the project. (more…)

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09/02/16 6:04am

White House sommelier visits Coffee Pot Cellars

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Coffee Pot Cellars in Cutchogue. (Credit: Katharine Schroeder, file photo)

Coffee Pot Cellars in Cutchogue. (Credit: Katharine Schroeder, file)

Coffee Pot Cellars in Cutchogue received a rather presidential visitor last Friday — Daniel Shanks, the White House’s director of food and beverage and its sommelier.

Shanks purchased a bottle of Coffee Pot’s 2013 Meritage, some Blossom Meadow honey, a T-shirt and even decorated corks for Coffee Pot’s winasaur, a dinosaur-shaped topiary made of wine corks.

Shanks and his wife Linda tasted through the wines with Coffee Pot Cellars tasting room manager Laura Klahre and discussed the First Lady’s healthy eating intiatives.

“You just never know who is going to walk in,” said Klahre, who is also a beekeeper and sells her Blossom Meadow Farms honey products in the tasting room. “[We’re] so glad to be part of the fabric of the North Fork.” (more…)

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Cutchogue
06/21/16 3:41pm

At Coffee Pot Cellars, a hard cider made with honey and love

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North Fork beekeeper Laura Klahre with her husband, Coffee Pot Cellars and Osprey's Dominion winemaker Adam Suprenant. (Credit: Monique Singh-Roy)

North Fork beekeeper Laura Klahre with her husband, Coffee Pot Cellars and Osprey’s Dominion winemaker Adam Suprenant. (Credit: Monique Singh-Roy)

If one half of a married couple is a beekeeper and the other a winemaker, you can count on hearing one question fairly regularly.

“People always come and ask, ‘When are you going to make a honey wine?'” said Coffee Pot Cellars owner and winemaker Adam Suprenant, whose wife Laura Klahre sells her Blossom Meadow honey out of their Cutchogue tasting room.  (more…)

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North Fork
05/31/16 12:00pm

5 places to buy local honey on the North Fork

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North Breeze Farms sells pure honey, as well as infused, flavored and buttered honeys. (Credit: Monique Singh-Roy)

North Breeze Farms sells pure honey, flavored and buttered honeys. (Credit: Monique Singh-Roy)

What’s sweeter than buying local North Fork honey?  (more…)

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North Fork
03/29/16 8:00am

Finding all-natural skin care products on the North Fork and Shelter Island

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Beekeeper Laura Klahre makes lip balm and lotion bar from beeswax. (Credit: Monique Singh-Roy)

Beekeeper Laura Klahre makes lip balm and lotion bar from beeswax. (Credit: Monique Singh-Roy)

At Catapano Dairy Farm in Peconic, goat milk is used not only to make savory chèvre and tangy feta, it’s also the main ingredient in luxurious skin care products fit for a queen.

“Goat milk is easily absorbed and very softening to the skin,” said Deb Slack, who supervises production of the farm’s skin care line. “Cleopatra used to bathe in it.” (more…)

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