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Article: WINE COUNTRY.(Discover Syracuse)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- July 31, 2009
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Byline: Don Cazentre, Food and Drink editor
New York state is closing in on 300 wineries, with about a third of those added just within the past 10 years.
"We've had more growth in the past 10 years than we had in the boom times of the 1970s and'80s," says Jim Trezise, president of the New York Wine & Grape Foundation.
The state's most established wine trails are in the Finger Lakes, on the shores of Lake Erie, in the Hudson Valley and on Long Island. That means no matter which way you head from Syracuse, you're bound to run into a winery sooner or later.
Even to the north: The state's newest wine region -- the Thousand Islands-Seaway ...