Heritage Wines of the Hudson Valley
Jim Meyers, Viticulture Specialist
Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture
American viticulture and wine culture is rooted in the 19th century northeast. New York, in particular, produced the first commercial wines in the United States at a time when several grape breeding programs were active in the Hudson Valley. Despite this history, your local wine shop is not selling wines made from the old cultivars of New England and New York. Today, most of the products found in the wine shop are made from traditional European cultivars (e.g. Cabernet Franc and Riesling is readily found on shelves), even when grown and produced in New York.
Heritage Wines of the Hudson Valley (pdf; 281KB)
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