Winemaker interview Morten Hallgren: drying out the Finger Lakes.(WINEMAKING)(Interview)

From: Wines & Vines | Date: February 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

The 19th century Finger Lakes wine region was started and built on sweet wines of Catawba and Isabella grapes. In the 1960s, immigrant wine-makers with surnames like Frank, Fournier and Wiemer began the long campaign in the region for Riesling, Chardonnay and other, more Europeanstyle table wines.

Yet today, even after the vanished giants of the local wine industry's vineyards have succumbed to weeds, many small wineries continue with an array of sweet wines produced from the so-called Native grape varieties (neither Catawba nor Isabella are native to New York). But ...

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