Viticulture in New York
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Official name: | State of New York |
Appellation type: | US state |
Year of establishment: | 1788 |
Country: | United States |
Sub-regions: | Cayuga Lake AVA , Finger Lakes AVA , Hudson River Region AVA , Lake Erie AVA , Long Island AVA , Niagara Escarpment AVA , North Fork of Long Island AVA , Seneca Lake AVA , The Hamptons, Long Island AVA |
Precipitation (annual mean): | 760 mm to 1270 mm |
Recognized cultivation area: | 141,206 km² (54,520 sqmi) |
Grape varieties: | Aurore , Baco Noir , Cabernet Franc , Cabernet Sauvignon , Catawba , Cayuga , Chambourcin , Chancellor , Chardonnay , Chelois , Chenin Blanc , Colobel , Concord , DeChaunac , Delaware , Diamond , Elvira , Frontenac , Gewürztraminer , Isabella , Ives Noir , Léon Millot , Maréchal Foch , Melody , Merlot , Niagara , Pinot Blanc , Pinot Gris , Pinot Noir , Riesling , Rougeon , Sauvignon Blanc , Seyval Blanc , Steuben , St. Pepin , Traminette , Vidal Blanc , Vignoles , St. Vincent |
Viticulture in New York refers to viticulture in the American state of New York . Under American law, every state and county is by definition a protected designation of origin and need not be recognized as such by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives .
In terms of harvest volume, New York ranks third behind the states of California (→ viticulture in California ) and Washington (→ viticulture in Washington ) in the United States.
Over 80 percent of the vineyards are still planted with the idiosyncratic, indigenous autochthonous descendants of American wild vines of the Vitis labrusca family. The most popular is the Concord grape variety . The rest is shared by French hybrid vines and early- ripening noble vines from the Vitis vinifera family (Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Pinot Noir, ...).
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Appellation America (2007). "New York: Appellation Description" . Last access to this page on May 19, 2008.
Web links
literature
- André Dominé (Ed.): Wine . Tandem Verlag, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-8331-4344-1 .
- Bruce Cass, Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Companion to the Wine of North America . Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2000, ISBN 0-19-860114-X .