On the south side of the old farm road, just outside the village of Mattituck, there is a gently sloping field hidden in plain sight behind an ancient oak tree. Once a farm, and still home to a barn that was the village blacksmith shop, Old Sound Vineyard is where we live, where we host our friends and family, and where we grow our grapes. Our wines are an expression of this place, the season, and the people who help us farm the grapes and make our wine.
We grow Cabernet Franc and Merlot grapes on our property and in May 2024 we planted Gamay and Alberinõ in our back fields.
Our brilliant winemaker, Byron Elmendorf, is the head winemaker at Macari Vineyards. Thank you to the Macari family for encouraging and supporting our collaboration with Byron and for welcoming us into the fold.
Our wine guru and vineyard manager is Steve Mudd, a man renowned for his story-telling talents and growing the finest grapes on the East End.
Our Story
Anthony Martignetti
Anthony loves drinking raspy reds, refreshing whites, and Vermouth over ice. When he’s not mowing the vineyard or making sure there are no leaks in the irrigation system, he is a New York City restauranteur and bar owner who now calls Mattituck, on the North Fork of Long Island, home. As well as owning and operating Old Sound Vineyard, he is renovating a famous two-hundred-year-old waterfront inn, The Old Mill, a few miles from the vineyard, on Mattituck Creek.
He founded Broome Street Hospitality in 2006 with his brother Tom and since then has owned and operated many well-loved establishments from Brinkley’s and Southside in Soho to Pizza Beach, Canal Street Oysters, The Palace nightclub, Melody’s Piano Bar and the Upper East Side institution, The East Pole. He was a founder of Uhuru Design, a leading Brooklyn furniture and interiors company. He has been drawing cartoons most of his adult life and has been published in the New Yorker and Airmail. His book of funny illustrations about life and death, Deep Thoughts From A Shallow Grave: Epitaphs to Die For, will be published in spring 2024 by Rizolli.
Angela Ledgerwood
Angela loves drinking minerally whites, lean reds, and bubbles at any time of day. When she’s not planning the perfect meal to pair with her drink of choice, she is immersed in the publishing and book world. Currently, she is the Editorial Director of the Sugar23 Books imprint at Crown/Penguin Random House and the host of the long-running podcast about literature, Lit Up, where she’s interviewed literary icons such as Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Karl Ove Knausguaard, and iconoclasts Trevor Noah, Parker Posey, and Stanley Tucci, to name a few. Before her time in publishing, she worked as an editor at Cosmopolitan Magazine and had a monthly books column at Esquire.com. Her nonfiction has been published in The Cut, Elle, Condé Nast Traveler, Interview, Marie Claire, The Australian Financial Review, and The Australian.
Her love of wine officially started when she was a server at Gjelina in Los Angeles in 2008 and her fascination with the wine world and the people who make it has grown ever since.
