Article: NEW YORK: In wine country, a throng comes by for a tasting

BEN DOBBIN, AP Business Writer
AP Worldstream
10-06-2005
Dateline: ROCHESTER, New York
Wineries in New York are drawing nearly three times as many visitors as a decade ago, making the wine industry the fastest growing sector in agriculture and tourism _ two of the state's biggest economic engines.

Of the 212 wineries that have sprouted from Long Island across to Lake Erie _ there were only 19 in 1975 _ each one had an average of 54 percent more visitors in 2003 than it did three years earlier, according to the latest survey by the New York Agricultural Statistics Service.

The typical winery more than doubled its tasting-room sales, with each visitor spending 49 percent more on average than in ...

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