{"id":11568,"date":"2015-07-14T07:33:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11568"},"modified":"2015-07-14T07:33:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:33:58","slug":"proposed-new-ava-champlain-valley-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/proposed-new-ava-champlain-valley-of-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed New AVA: Champlain Valley of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11577\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/vescoridge1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11577\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11577\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/vescoridge1-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"Veso Ridge Vineyards, NY\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/vescoridge1-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/vescoridge1.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veso Ridge Vineyards, NY<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On July 2, the TTB published a proposal for another American Viticultural Area (AVA). While in some regions including California an announcement of a possible new AVA is not unusual, this newest proposal may raise a few eyebrows for it is located in a cold weather region and its predominant grapes are North American hybrids. The region is in northern New York State.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed AVA would be called Champlain Valley of New York and will cover 500 square miles.\u00a0 The description of the proposed AVA includes the following details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently six bonded wineries<\/li>\n<li>11 commercial vineyards<\/li>\n<li>Plans for 63 additional vineyards<\/li>\n<li>Short growing season<\/li>\n<li>Grape varieties include: Frontenac, La Crescent, Marquette<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Located on the western shore of Lake Champlain the valley is quite flat. It is long and narrow.<\/p>\n<p>The name \u201cChamplain Valley of New York\u201d is rather long but it is used to more accurately describe the location of the area. It avoids confusion with the Champlain Valley along the Vermont border with Vermont and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago we visited two wineries in this region also known as<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11576\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nyadirondackregion2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11576\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11576\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nyadirondackregion2-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Grapevines at Amazing Grace Vineyards and Winery\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nyadirondackregion2-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nyadirondackregion2.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grapevines at Amazing Grace Vineyards and Winery, New York<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/newyork\/nyadirondackcoastregion.php\">Adirondack Coast<\/a>. Check out our articles on <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/newyork\/amazinggrace.php\">Amazing Grace Vineyards and Winery<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/newyork\/vescoridge.php\">Vesco Ridge Vineyards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Comments to the TTB regarding the proposed AVA are accepted until August 31, 2015.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Proposed New AVA: Champlain Valley of New York\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11568\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed AVA would be called Champlain Valley of New York and will cover 500 square miles.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[3407,768,3405,3404,3406],"class_list":["post-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-american-viticulture-area","tag-ava","tag-champlain","tag-champlain-valley-of-new-york","tag-ttb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11580,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions\/11580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}