Research Cab
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 3–8 years from the vintage release to appreciate its fresh fruit and evolving savory complexity.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, grilled lamb chops, earthy mushroom ragout
✨ Technical Specifications
Channing Daughters' Research series represents the winery's deeply experimental and avant-garde spirit on the South Fork of Long Island. The Research Cab is born from pilot and experimental vineyard plots in Bridgehampton, where the winemaking team explores how Cabernet varieties adapt to the maritime, breeze-swept soils of the East End. Influenced by the nearby Atlantic Ocean and Peconic Bay, this cool-climate expression of Cabernet diverges from the heavy, oak-laden styles of warmer regions, instead emphasizing bright acidity, savory herbal undertones, fresh red and black fruit, and a distinct mineral spine. Produced in extremely limited quantities, it reflects a hands-on, low-intervention approach in the cellar designed to let the true potential of Long Island's terroir shine through.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded by Walter Channing with initial vineyard plantings dating back to 1982 in Bridgehampton on Long Island's South Fork, Channing Daughters Winery stands as one of New York's most inventive and boundary-pushing artisanal producers. Guided by partner and winemaker Christopher Tracy alongside partner Larry Perrine, the estate champions low-intervention, sustainable viticulture across its distinctive maritime terroir. The winery is celebrated for its remarkably diverse and adventurous portfolio encompassing more than two dozen grape varieties, ranging from skin-contact orange wines like Meditazione and complex field blends like Mosaico to expressive single-vineyard expressions such as L'Enfant Sauvage Chardonnay and Scuttlehole Chardonnay. Through experimental fermentations, pet-nats, and traditional method sparklers, Channing Daughters continues to showcase the dynamic potential and saline elegance of East End winemaking.