The Long Island wine country draws 1.3 million visitors a year for their award winning and highly acclaimed wines. Profiling owners, winemakers, and personalities from around the country and the world to make Long Island one of the hottest wine regions in the country, Behind the Bottle is a fun and intriguing look into the world of wine.<BR><BR>Long Island has been a leader in winemakeing since 1975. In this short period, Long Island's rise has been meteoric. Long a rural region famed for their duck and their potatoes, Long Island, now visited by 1.3 million people each year, has carved out a wine country second to none. With highly acclaimed wines garnering rave reviews from Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many oher publications, Long Island wines have been celebrated around the country and across the Atlantic ocean. Here, Edible East End editor Eileen M. Duffy profiles winemakers and wineries who have received this high acclaim, and their stories. Men and women from as far away as California, France, even New Zealand have come here to create a wine country whose wines, including Chardonnay, Sauvingon Blanc, Merlot, and Meritages among others that are second to none. BEHIND THE BOTTLE illustrates the fascinating story from the region's birth to its zenith. The book will be co-published with the Edible magazines group which includes Edible East End, Edible Manhattan, and Edible Brooklyn magazines, all of which will promote the book.