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Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Examining the Fallout from Napa's Measure C The last few months were witness to a hard-fought battle between...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Napa’s Measure C Now Almost Certain to Fail Measure C, also known as the Napa Oak Woodlands and...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Napa's Watershed C Vote at a Standstill Poor voter response, mail-in ballots and bureaucracy stall a decision on...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Domestic Rosé Gaining Market Share from French The rosé trend still shows no sign of slowing with its...

Small Wineries Hoping for Tax Cuts Face Massive Tax Hikes Instead Last year's big tax bill included excise-tax cuts for American wineries, but an error means many now face a potential tax hike...

(NEW YORK) Brew Central, a tourism initiative of the Central New York Vacation Region continues to grow with the addition of Tioga County. With...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Battle for Napa Valley’s Future: Proposed Curb on Vineyards Divides County Fifty years ago Monday, Napa County passed...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Bordeaux Wine Firm Found Guilty of Fraud A judge ruled that Grands Vins de Gironde illegally blended cheap...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Two 'Second Acts' in the Napa Valley Wine Industry: The Araujo and Krupp Families Napa Valley has changed....

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Washington State Reports Lighter Wine Grape Harvest, Excellent Quality in 2017 Washington State's wine grape harvest totaled 227,000...

In the 40-plus years since Alex and Louisa Hargrave planted and founded Long Island’s first commercial vineyard and winery in 1973, the region has fought hard, vintage by vintage, to earn its reputation for producing some of the best wine in the East, almost exclusively from classic French varieties like Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.

Pioneering winemakers from all over the worlds helped to shape the Finger Lakes into a modern region. These founding winemakers began growing vinifera and raised the quality of wine, and that in turn attracted a new generation of talented individuals, who continue to push the boundaries and carry on the pursuit of excellence in the Finger Lakes.

It is impossible to begin to talk about the current winemaking scene in the Finger Lakes without covering its immensely important influence on the national winemaking scene. The Finger Lakes is not the oldest winegrowing region in the state, that distinction belongs to the Hudson Valley, but it is the largest, and arguably the best-known region in New York state. There are more than 100 wineries between the five major lakes. The Finger Lakes are five large lakes carved out by the withdrawal of the Wisconsin ice sheet.  They formed deep gouges creating Scandinavian fjord-like lakes, with deep bottoms. This kind of depth offers an important temperature moderating influence that acts as a buffer from the cold northern winds and weather flowing down from Canada. This is commonly called Lake Effect.

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: How Alcohol Damages Stem Cell DNA and Increases Cancer Risk Drinking alcohol produces a harmful chemical in the...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Do Celebrity Wines Sell? Industry professionals discuss how fame affects the retail sales of wines associated with actors,...