Want to Know Which New York State Wine is the Best?

Many of you ask “Which New York State Wine is the Best?” Well that is where this website at NYuncorked.com comes in. We are here to help you make that decision.

You might have sampled vintages from some of the Long Island wineries, or the Finger Lakes wineries, the Niagara region wineries or any of the many other NYS wineries that are spread out all through the state and even in New York City.

What do you get when you mix several generations of wine making experience, an old gravel pit that you convert into a lovely lake, perfectly good unused farm land, a local passenger railroad terminal and a hard working family?  You get the Varallo family’s “Spring Lake Winery” located near Lockport, New York.

The story of this relatively new winery is told in a brochure available from the company titled, “Gravel to Grapes: The Story of Spring Lake Winery!” The Niagara Escarpment is famous for its late season Rieslings and Spring Lake has an award winning vintage already.

When New Yorkers uncork a Pinot Gris they are literally uncorking a pinecone grey wine. The Pinot Gris is vitis vinifera species of the white grape variety. This grape has long been a favorite of European aristocrats and has gone through many name changes from Fromenteau to Szurkebarat then Rulander before the final name as we know today. This is also sometimes referred to as the “other white wine”.

When uncorking this powerful red wine a connoisseur enjoys the rich deep taste of a black fruit. The color of this fruit is the darkest among wine grapes in that it resembles black. The ancestry of this fruit comes from two little know vines of the dureza and mondeuse blanche from the southeastern part of France.

There are many different names this fruit is called including sirac, shiraz, syrac and serine to name a few.  There are also several legends about its true origin. Many of them have the wine originating in the Iranian town of Shiraz and then brought to the Rhone region of France, just when is debated.