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Doug Geed takes us to some of the East End's great wineries that offer heated outdoor spaces for patrons to enjoy during the cold winter months.&nbsp;

<a href="http://lenzwine.com">Lenz Winery</a> Route 25, Peconic 631-734-6010

<a href="http://rgnywine.com">RGNY Wines</a> Sound Avenue, Riverhead 631-298-0075

<a href="http://macariwines.com">Macari Wines</a> Sound Avenue, Mattituck 631-298-0100

Personalized Gifts &amp; Treasures <a href="https://m.facebook.com/groups/885857388287028/">Facebook</a> personalizedgiftsandtreasures@gmail.com

Doug Geed takes us to some of the East End's great wineries that offer heated outdoor spaces for patrons to enjoy during the cold winter months. 

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Ok. Ok. We've got some, uh, kind of ugly stuff moving in but the weekend's gonna be kind of warm most of it for most of it, which is the good takeaway from this is that we are looking for majority of the next few days to be fine. It's just really gonna be our Sunday afternoon and evening hours where we're gonna have to just be weather aware. So what we need to know we're looking at Friday. Not bad. It's gonna actually be a warmer start to a trend that's gonna get even better. By the time we get into our Saturday, Saturday, we're still on the dry end. Temperatures will start to warm into the middle fifties and then Sunday, we're going to be near 60 degrees if not at the 60 degree mark. But that's also when we're gonna be looking at the storm system to move in from a Sunday afternoon into our Monday morning. So around at dinner time or even early into our afternoon is when we're gonna be anticipating to see some rain from the storm system to move its way across to Long Island. Now, early parts of our Sunday, it's mainly going to be light rain. But as we get to the overnight transitioning into early Monday morning, heavy rainfall is going to start to develop for us just into around the five o'clock mark, which is going to lead into our early Monday morning. So we could see between 1 to 2 inches of rainfall by the time the event is over with and gusty winds from 30 to 40 MPH. The good news is though, once we're into our Monday afternoon, it looks to clear up for us, but until we get there overnight, it's partly cloudy cold conditions, temperatures just a degree or two below freezing or at the freezing point. Again, Friday and Saturday, you're not gonna need the heavy coats but still gonna be nice and chilly. At least until we get into our Saturday, quiet conditions heading into our Friday for us. Plenty of sunshine, cloud cover will move in for Saturday and then for Sunday into Monday, we're gonna be monitoring that storm system.

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East End Full Show: Heated outdoor spaces at East End wineries 

a cold gray, clammy, january day. Perfect for sitting outside at one of our area wineries. Hello again. I'm doug welcome to another edition of the East End here on news 12 Long Island on this weekend's program. We're going to visit three wineries that have heated outdoor units where you can enjoy their wine. We'll also tell you the story of a North Fork woman who uses shells and driftwood to make ornaments and other unique gifts. But let's get right to those wineries. We begin our journey at the lens winery in Peconic. This is the very first year that we've incorporated the igloos into our winter wonderland courtyard here at lens. We partnered with Sunset igloos to set up both of our igloos here and um, you know, invite people out to rent them. We have a 90 minute Block to rent them. They're available every single day through the winter $400 included with a bottle of wine. And they set up to six people. We have a great winter wine bar menu, wines and food, a la carte that you could enhance your experience with everyone. That's come out has really just provided such nice feedback. They're very cozy. They have fireplaces, we have nice cozy winter blankets. It's a really great time. There's music in all of them and lights. So it really sets for magical. Nice time. We left out picnic tables this year because we have had those very clear sunny days and people still want to sit outside and keep the, The season going as long as possible. We've had a couple inquiries about the fire pits that we added this fall. Um, but yeah, as long as there's no rain or wind, we'll light the fire pit and you can enjoy a glass of wine outside lens is one of the oldest wineries out here. We are celebrating our 45th anniversary this year. Um Peter and I took over at lens in 1987. We had originally planted our own vineyard. Peter drove the tractor, I planted grapes into the start. I don't know why I got to do that, but we ended up taking over lens and incorporating our vineyard in lens as well. You lived at that house here, we did. We lived at that house for a long time. We had all of our christmases there. So one year, um, we got a potted christmas tree because I couldn't find a cup one. We got out too late. We decorated that at the end of christmas, We brought it outside and just put it in a barrel and stuck it out in the corner. Now that tree is enormous out in the courtyard, it's about 20 odd years old and it's just beautiful and it's kind of burst out of its barrel, burst out of its barrel. All the barrel stays are sort of broken out from the inside and we decorated it for the first time this year. So we're really excited about that lens. We now incorporate about 23 different labels of wines that goes anywhere from our sparkling wines to our still wines, white rose and red for a long standing traditional sparkling wine, we've had our cuvee since 1989 but we also have a new pet nat sparkling wine rose that we've introduced. We have a couple different roses, everything in houses made dry all the way up to our old vines merlot, which kind of put lens on the map um, as being one of our top lines, it is a, it is our flagship wine here. Merlot from the north for our oldest vine is a play on the fact that we do have some of the oldest vines planted in the region 1978. You can't help but get the rustic charm when you enter the door and just feel the history and our tasting room here is an original potato barn that was owned by the crops key family, We've traced this barn back to 1919 oh one uh, and the tasting room here was where they used to store all the potatoes during the winter. Um, and on the beams here, you can see different stamps of cities and countries that they used to export the potatoes to. One of them that stands out is Havana. I hope that people walk through the doors and feel a certain warmth as they come in. I think that wine tasting can be a very intimidating thing. It is for me, like as I go into another winery, I mean I'm not exactly sure what to do or what to say and I own a winery so I hope that when people walk through the doors they can just go and realized that there's nice music, they're nice people. We're here to help them and help them experience the joys of tasting good wine. That wine barrel christmas tree out there, How long will that be up? So the wine barrel christmas tree that came to life about three years ago um He had an idea and he started playing around with the barrels and um each year it's grown into something more and more. We've added more lights. Our tasting room manager Macy has added some bows and ribbons so we will keep that up. It stays normally through the entire winter as well. It just adds to the ambiance and the intimacy of our courtyard. The lens winery is a pretty place producing some great wines. Will give you their contact information later in our show. Our next stop though is Riverhead the vineyard, R. G. N. Y, which is renting greenhouses. So this is our second year doing greenhouses were doing very well with them. They fit about 2 to 6 people comfortably. Um It's about $100 a person. You get it for about three hours um When you come in, you're welcomed with a glass of sparkling, you get two glasses of wine of your choosing. Um and then you get kind of a choice of soup and, and charcuterie and cheese and dessert, you'll get, you'll get a sign a server. Um then there will be a little menu in there for you. So it's just kind of a pre selected menu that you get to order off of. Um There is no limit to the wine you can order, so you can order usually any of our reserves, limited edition um any of our basic wines, so, but each person would get to two glasses of wine, each complementary, correct? It's nice because you can kind of be in the middle of the vineyard without, you know, even during the winter and what I like, it's like a little area. It looked like to me like a little campground, you know with the different people, we saw families, little kids walking around definitely recommend bringing kids. I mean we're family friendly vineyard here, so we also have a large property so kids can run around all day long and now let's talk about inside the greenhouses are nice, but it's gorgeous in here and it seems like you have a lot of room. Yeah, it's been really nice. It's flexible, you can go to the bar if you want to, you know, you can kind of hang out at the tables, full table service. We do table service all around the table service in the bar area. You can come up to the bar and hang out at the bar. Um But it's table service in either room above you is the private wine tasting lofts. When we have our experiences that we offer quite a few different experiences here at the tasting room, two of the biggest ones are blending session where we have all of the board great components planted on sites. We have cabernet sauvignon cabernet franc, merlot malbec and we actually bottle some of them separately, some of the components separately and offer guests the opportunity to come in, taste the components separately, do some blending trials and develop their own blend and they can actually leave the taster with a bottle of their own blend, which is really exciting. I think that sounds like fun. People must, oh it's a blast, a great opportunity to get nick, pick about all these different kind of wine details that you don't get in a standard tasting. We actually have two different series of wines. We have our cielo program and that tends to be more approachable program and those tend to be sub $30 a bottle, very variety focused. We have our sovereign blanc or Riesling or chardonnay and bordeaux blend. And then we have our, our g reserve series and with that series, tens were a higher quality wine cabernet franc is a popular place to visit. Will give their contact information later. But we have one more winery to show you where you can sit outdoors. This one in pretty luxurious surroundings. A visit to McCary wines in the bungalows are like a wine style lounge where they get to enjoy a tasting of five of our top wines. So they do receive a message board with the five wine tasting. Um So there's some cheese and charcuterie, some dips, some burrata, it's delicious. Um And they have that either from 11 o'clock to one o'clock or two o'clock to four o'clock. Um And those are for guests between 6 to 8 guests and um they're beautiful so it really it feels like um kind of like your living room, you know, it's a very wine style lounging um Just something to enjoy with friends and family. We have really beautiful rugs in there. Um It keeps it nice and cozy for the winter months too. Those records actually came from the McCary family. So they brought in a lot of their own records and they're so much fun guests can also connect to the Bluetooth there too. I see a lot of sixties, seventies in there. I saw Sinatra Zeppelin. Sinatra is a big one. We have Amy Winehouse is a big one too, yep. What's the reaction been from people, they love it, I think they see it online and the beauty when they, when I lift open the door to, so it's it's stunning. And how about this room in here where we're sitting. So this is our winter lodge. We just redecorated it for the winter season. It can also host guests from between 7 to 20 and here. So it's a little bit of larger space but same concept only. They do have brunch as the option between 11 o'clock and one o'clock or lunch from 2 to 5. Um and it's gorgeous. We set up this long table here and we have the five wine tasting um with our food's up on the back table there for guests to enjoy. McCarry is a very pretty property. Will give you the contact information for them And the other wineries we visited later in our show first though I wanted to do something a little different maps that's different. It's unique to North Fork. Woman walks the beaches year round looking for shells and then turns them into ornaments and other unique and beautiful gifts. That story Next on the east End here on News 12 Long Island. Probably the only indoor beach on Long Island. Right by the entrance way to the Long Island aquarium. Welcome back to the East End here on News 12 Long Island. I'm doug the story now of the North Fork woman who combs, area beaches for driftwood and shells to make unique gifts. Started probably 2020. I got one of those cricket machines that seems to be very popular and I was making shirts and pillows and a couple of key chains, items like that. And then I like to walk on the beach a lot, especially during covid look for beach glass. And then I kept coming across shells and I said there's got to be something else I could do with these shells and decoupage seemed to be something I felt comfortable in trying decoupage is, I would say it's like a glue material and you can take some people use photos or um, maps and card stock. I like to use tissue paper or napkins and you kind of coat whatever you're using with a layer of the decoupage and then place your image on there and it adheres and then you have a nice piece of artwork. What type of show you look for different ones or I look for pretty much anything. My favorite, our clam oyster and scallop and it depends on um, like if I'm doing an ornament, I like something that's a little flatter because it's, It's easier to show the image. And then I do think, I guess what you'd call a trinket dish or a ring dish. You could put change in it though is I like to be a little more cupped, have a little bit more of that concave, I guess that would be shaped to it. And sometimes I find 10 shells. Sometimes I might find 100 shells. It really all depends. My favorite time to go is actually when the weather isn't what people would like when it's cold because of the beach all to myself. So what different things are you doing on the shelves. Some of them are just colorful napkins that I like to collect. You can find them at any grocery store, Some of the hobby stores. And then I wanted to do something a little different. And I had seen when I was doing my google search that some people were using maps on like wine bottles and I said, oh, maps, that's different. It's unique. I can make it specific to where I live. Some of them, I make specific to where the customer lives. They might request a certain street or certain bay summer ornaments. Um they just get like a little ribbon or like raffia string and then the others are just displayed your side table. Great for your rings, jewelry, change if you have a small key fob or just a display. What categories of gifts are you coming up with? I do pillows, I do t shirts. I took some old teacups and turn them into bird feeders. I glue the teacup to the saucer and you kind of got to get it kind of on the right angle so that it will hang. But the bird seed won't fall out and then you can just hang it out there and it's a nice way to display maybe a piece of china that you had or for me, things that I pick up a tag sales and it's great to uh watch the birds too. Sometimes if I find a really great piece of driftwood, um, drill a hole in it, put a tea candle in it and it's a great table topper, you know, great for outside indoors outdoors. So where are you selling your items currently? Um Mostly word of mouth facebook and instagram. I do also have um an Etsy shop, but really facebook has been my best friend. So the driftwood um really I only put in some of the stores and so that's another thing. I've been very fortunate. There's a couple of um stores here on the North Fork. I'm in North Fork Chocolate Company at revel in Greenport, North Fork craft gallery in the East Wind shops. And I think it's Lori's gifts in aqua box. There is a lot of patients. Um for the decoupage, I I like to try to get as little wrinkles as possible. Um Like I said before, my husband actually thinks the wrinkles give it a little character. I like them smooth, so it is, it is take patience because the tissue or the napkin can rip and then you gotta start all over or try to manage to give it a little repair. Um But I find the best time is my family usually sits and watches the hockey game and I sit next to them and kind of just do it as a relaxing, I don't feel any pressure. It's just fun for me. I've had some people, they see it like when I'm at a craft and they'll be like, oh look a painted shell and I'm always quick to, to clarify because I'm not a paint person. I'm not an artist in that fashion. I say no, it's decoupage, but I do appreciate that. They appreciate the look of it. So yeah. And I sometimes I have to stop and think, um, I forget that when somebody buys my item, it's going somewhere and when I sit back and reflect on that, I recently had a customer reach out to me after christmas and she said your gifts were, I was, I was the hit of christmas and then it really resonated for me for a minute that what I did. Somebody took, gave to somebody else and they're at home appreciating it. So it really gives a really sense of fulfillment and accomplishment. Lorraine makes some very pretty pieces will give the contact information for her for the other spots we visited on this weekend's program and we'll give you a peek at the next show all straight ahead on the east end here on news 12 Long Island. It's said to be a replica of the second largest great white ever caught caught off the coast of South Africa. Welcome back to the East End here on news 12 Long Island. I'm doug. This is the long island aquarium in Riverhead More on this place in a moment. First, let's show you the places we visited on this weekend's program. We showed you three wineries that have heated outdoor seating this winter. First, the lens winery on route 25 in Peconic. You can call them at 631 7346010 or go to lens wine dot com. Next was R G N Y. On Sound Avenue in Riverhead. Their number is 63129800 75. Their website R G N. Y wine dot com. We also showed you McCary wines on Sound Avenue in Matter tuck. You can call 6312980 100 or go to McCary wines dot com. Then we showed you the unique gifts made at personalized gifts and treasures. You can reach them on their facebook and instagram pages or email them at personalized gifts and treasures at gmail dot com. Remember you can find links to these and other fun places to visit and you can see more of my East End segments at news 12 dot com slash east end and that'll wrap things up for this weekend's program on our next show, the weekend of january 28th. The visit to the Long island aquarium in Riverhead. A great place to feel like you're in the tropics, even in the middle of winter. Hey, remember go to the East End shows facebook page and like us for more information about our show and check us out on instagram at East End show. I'm doug thanks for watching enjoy the rest of your weekend and we'll see you next time from the East End.

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East End Full Show: Heated outdoor spaces at East End wineries

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