Good news for New York: Millennials can't stop drinking wine

Jun 1, 2017

(Timesunion) - The miles of grape fields that once flanked the Hudson River are slowly returning, bringing with them wine and, hopefully, the millennials who can’t stop guzzling it. 

In the last decade eastern New York has quietly turned into a significant hub for grape and wine production, with grape-growing acreage increasing by 50 percent since 2007 as more farmers take advantage of the Atlantic Ocean weather fronts that are moved northward by the river.  

It’s in many ways a return to regional roots. Once a hotspot for table grape production — and home to Brotherhood, the oldest operating winery in the country — the Hudson Valley has over time become an epicenter of New York’s leading apple industry. But as interest in the craft beverage sector draws more agrotourism to the area — and as Americans buy wine bottles at near-historic rates — groups believe the wine outlook is better than ever.

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