Finger Lakes Wine Surprises

摘要

I've had many pleasant, wine-related surprises since moving to New York's western Finger Lakes region in 1964. Certainly high on my list of these surprises are those connected with learning about an almost-forgotten log-cabin pioneer, Samuel Warren, who came to this region as a 19-year-old in 1816. The first of these surprises was to read in an out-of-print book of local history that Warren had made the first wine in our county (Livingston), in 1832, and operated a winery for decades - just a mile from my home in the Town of York, across the Genesee Valley from SUNY Geneseo. His sons, Josiah and Harlan, operated the winery and conducted the other family businesses in York after their father's death in 1862.