Warming Up to Port
Locally-produced dessert wines are a specialty in the Hudson Valley. Dessert wines, which tend to be sweeter and more alcoholic than regular table wines, can include late harvest wines, sherries, ports, and fortified fruit wines such as cassis, which is made from currants.
Velvety Vignoles
ignoles, a white grape also known as Ravat 51, has become one of the mainstays of the Eastern North American wine industry. This adaptable grape can produce wines that are comparable to wines produced in the Rhine Valley in Germany.
The Best (Local) Way To Toast the Holidays
Cheers to the holidays! When it comes to celebratory sparklers, there are many delicious local wines, ciders, and spirits worthy of your holiday table.
Brotherhood Winery
Brotherhood remains the oldest winery in America, continuously operating from 1839 to today, even throughout Prohibition.
Quartz Rock Vineyard & Cider House
Quartz Rock Vineyard & Cider House is a small, family-owned, award-winning estate farm winery. The farm and tasting room are located high on a mountain in Marlboro, NY, with spectacular panoramic views from every table.
Whitecliff Vineyard
Hailed as “one of the valley’s most ambitious wineries,” Whitecliff takes pride in being part of a vanguard of innovators who have added European wine grapes, high-quality new hybrids, and complex, European-style wines to the Valley’s traditional focus on fruit wines and sweet wines.
Milea Estate Vineyard
The 98-acre Milea Estate Vineyard is a very successful winery in the historic Hudson River Region, dedicated to capturing the unique, natural environmental benefits of soil, climate, and sunlight to produce outstanding, award-winning wines.
Clermont Vineyards & Winery
In 2009, Tony Trigo embarked on a remarkable journey by founding Clermont Vineyards and Winery on a picturesque former dairy farm in Clermont, NY. With a background in engineering and heavy construction, Tony has leveraged his expertise to develop innovative methods for tending to and harvesting his grapes, ensuring the highest quality production.