Wine grapes

A buddy of mine is starting to make his own wine. I told him I would check with the brain trust at KKFora for sources of grapes local to the NYC area like the Hudson valley, long Island, jersey are all possible day trips to pick up some grapes.
So what do you have?

 

All I can offer is an amateur palate. Mmmm wine

 

kelly and i have thought really hard about puttign few vines in. it fits the rest of our yard as jsut abotu every thing is food. im looking for a god place to put safron

 

Long Island has several wineries, some with quite a following. Bedell and Pellegrini stand out in my mind. I would bet there is a growers collective, or association of some sort for Long Island that would be a good place to start.

 

Olsens and Kunz on Long Island have some options. You can mail order from Starks. They have a decent selection of zone appropriate vine stock and offer replacement .

 

My buddy is looking for just grapes not vine stock, sorry if I mis-stated that guys.

 

Jim, take a look at Corrado's in Clifton NJ. They have several locations but Clifton is the original. Great market to visit.
http://site.corradosmarket.com/home/store-wine.html

 

Thanks Cliff, I will pass that link along.

 

Try winemakersny.com or contact Long Island Wine council for a list of vineyards selling grapes or juice. Jamesport Vineyards had some awesome stuff available last year. Worth looking into.

 

I know a a couple home wine makers that buy nice juice and make nice wine. They said the nicer juice is wear it is at! And they don't need a press

 

Thanks gents for all the suggestions so far.

 

Thanks all. I found Corrado's, awesome place and got some equipment there. Looking forward checking them out during harvest time. I wasn't thinking of the LI vineyards, that's a great idea.

At some point my dad want to plant some vines at his house in the Catskills. His neighbors planted a few rows and managed about 6 gallons of juice last fall.

Tom

 

NY has 5 AVAs (question on Som test) He might want to do some research. Grapes while maybe the same variety will probly be totally different in different regions. I heard they make Eiswein in the finger lakes... but you'd probly have to murder someone to get a hold of those grapes. OH and globe grapes don't work well LOL it will make alcohol but negative body. yeah that was a long time ago and I didn't know squat.