Pindar Vineyards

Monday through Friday, May through September, and that is the calendar

The winery's Catered Affairs page states that weddings run Monday to Friday during the months of May through September. Read that twice, because it is the most consequential sentence on this venue and almost no listing mentions it.

It removes every Saturday of the year and every Sunday. It removes October, which is the month most couples want on the North Fork. It leaves a five month band of weekdays. For a couple whose guest list is local and who can put people on a Friday, that constraint is survivable and probably cheaper. For a wedding with travelling guests, a Tuesday in June is a serious ask.

We fetched that page on 10 September 2026. Nothing on the page suggests exceptions, and nothing suggests the policy is seasonal or temporary.

You are renting land, not booking a caterer

The Catered Affairs page is explicit about the arrangement. A site fee reserves the entire tasting room property. Tent, tables and chairs are the responsibility of the party host. Alcohol and soft drinks are the responsibility of the party or the caterer. The winery provides no food. Wine favours are available through the vineyard.

That is a bring your own everything venue, and it is a completely different budgeting exercise from a catering hall quoting $160 a head. Tent, flooring, lighting, generators, tables, chairs, linens, china, glassware, staff, kitchen equipment, bar stock and a portable bathroom trailer are all line items you are sourcing and paying for separately.

People do this well and the results can be far better than a ballroom. It requires a planner or a caterer who runs off site events routinely, and it requires knowing that the number the winery quotes you is the beginning of the budget.

80 and 50 first party, 250 on WeddingWire

The winery publishes a Pavilion with a surrounding grass field good for up to 80 people at general events, and a tented patio for up to 50 at celebrations. It also names a Wisteria Deck and an indoor Lobby Gallery for smaller functions. WeddingWire lists the venue at up to 250 guests with indoor, covered outdoor and uncovered outdoor settings.

That is a gap of 170 people between the venue's own page and a marketplace listing, and we are not splitting it. There is a plausible explanation, which is that the first party figures describe general events at the existing Pavilion and patio while a fully tented wedding on 300 acres could be built much larger. The winery does not say that. Nobody should book this venue for 200 people on the strength of a WeddingWire number.

Settle the capacity against a specific tent footprint on a specific piece of ground, with the winery agreeing in writing.

1979, over 300 acres, roughly 70,000 cases

Pindar was founded in 1979 by Dr Herodotus Damianos, known as Dan, and the winery describes him on its own site as one of the original pioneers of Long Island wine country. It runs over 300 acres and produces roughly 70,000 cases a year, which makes it the largest vineyard operation on the island. It is now run by Pindar, Alexander and Alethea Damianos.

The scale is the thing that separates it from the boutique tasting rooms further east. It also explains the raw space arrangement: this is a production winery with a public tasting room attached, and events are a side business rather than the reason the property exists.

A site visit here should include a walk of the actual ground you would tent, at the hour your ceremony would happen. Three hundred acres of working vineyard is not uniformly photogenic, and the tasting room is a busy public building.

The site fee exists and the amount does not

The winery states that a site fee reserves the entire tasting room property and that specific site fees require direct consultation. So there is a fee, it is acknowledged, and no dollar figure for it appears anywhere, first party or marketplace. Timing is handled the same way: the page says availability requires direct consultation and publishes no end time.

The implication of the site fee covering the entire tasting room property is exclusivity, and the winery stops short of saying one event at a time. On a weekday in June that distinction is worth confirming, since the tasting room is a public building with its own trade.

Nothing is published on rain plans, service charges or vendor approval. Tenting is the host's job, which means the rain plan is also the host's job, and that is a cost to price before you sign.