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Article: New Red Wine Grape Unveiled in New York
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- March 10, 2003
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Dateline: BUFFALO, N.Y.
A new wine grape more than 50 years in the making is being touted
as a healthy, hardy "working man's red."
"The grape's time came," said Bruce Reisch, who helped breed the new
variety at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, a world-
renowned fruit-breeding center in the Finger Lakes.
The grape, known as GR 7, started from a 1947 cross between the Buffalo
and Baco noir grapes and survived decades of planting and testing
to achieve its commercial status. It comes of age as red wine enjoys
increasing popularity.
While cultivating upward of 6,000 seedlings at any given time, the
Station's breeders bring only a ...