New York State Chardonnay Harvest
WinesNY.com, an Internet publisher of information concerning New York State wines, has published a new featured article surveying Chardonnay in New York State. Chardonnay, being a cool climate grape, is perfect for New York's winemaking regions as many winemakers are discovering. The article explores Chardonnays producers in all of New York's wine producing appellations. New York has been developing a wine industry based on small artisanal farm wineries. Increasingly these wineries are producing high quality wines based on European style grapes and moving away from earlier sweet wines from native varietals. The article examines Chardonnay's role in this trend and how the grape is being employed by many winemakers to facilitate that movement.
Alvin Lewis, President of Point Prox Inc., parent of WinesNY.com, observed: "Chardonnay is becoming New York's golden wine grape. Any winemaker that produces white wines and wants to be takes seriously makes a Chardonnay. Across the state, from the Hamptons to the Niagara Escarpment, Chardonnay is becoming an important component of the development of a wine industry based on high quality vinifera varietals.
The Chardonnays that New York State is producing, at their best, can compete with the output from other significant Chardonnay making regions. The wines made in New York are more Burgundian than the Chardonnays from warmer climates like California or Australian. Due to the longer hang time needed to ripen the grapes, New York Chardonnays are generally more elegant, balanced, and complex than their hot climate cousins. Given the unique terroir of each of the state's wine growing appellations, Chardonnays from New York show regional character and breadth of style that makes exploring these wines quite exciting."
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