A Northern Wine Odyssey

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Paul and Shannon Brock, the husband and wife team behind Silver Thread Vineyard in the Finger Lakes, on the shift from extreme climate hybrid grape growing and winemaking to the European vinifera grape wines that now have come to dominate the fine wine trade of the Figner Lakes. Then we come full circle back to the subject of hybrids and the renaissance that those grapes are experiencing now and how they will play an important role toward the sustainable viticulture practices of the present and future.

Note: Sorry for the double download if you download these automatically. The first version we published was missing an entire segment. It's fixed now.

Paul and Shannon Brock, the husband and wife team behind Silver Thread Vineyard in the Finger Lakes, on the shift from extreme climate hybrid grape growing and winemaking to the European vinifera grape wines that now have come to dominate the fine wine trade of the Figner Lakes. Then we come full circle back to the subject of hybrids and the renaissance that those grapes are experiencing now and how they will play an important role toward the sustainable viticulture practices of the present and future.

Sommelier Brooks Fraser on up north recreation and the transition from living and working in New York City for 17 years to now running the bar program at Hotel Saranac, among the high peaks in the Adirondacks region.

A Northern Wine Music Odyssey: Finger Lakes winemaker Kelby Russell was primed for a career in performing arts management. He and host Paul Brady touch on their lives as musicians before finishing with some thoughts on the future of the Finger Lakes wine industry, and how the pandemic has unavoidably shaped the possible outcomes.

Finger Lakes grape grower extraordinaire Mike Colizzi joins host Paul Brady on A Northern Wine Odyssey for a chat about the second wave of hybrid grapes to hit the East Coast of the U.S. back in the early part of the 20th century. Colizzi grows riesling, cabernet franc, and blaufrankisch in his vineyard on the west side of Seneca Lake -- most of which goes to the highly regarded winery Hermann J. Wiemer -- but is also on the staff at the Cornell Agriculture Extension Station in Geneva, where he works in the grape breeding department helping to develop new hybrid varieties, making him the perfect person to have a finger on the pulse of modern cold and extreme climate growing.

Brittany Gibson, Executive Director of the Seneca Lake Wine Trail, joins host Paul Brady on A Northern Wine Odyssey to talk about a few Seneca Lake wineries who scored big at the New York Classic Competition, and about how you can use wine trails as a resource to help plan your New York wine country trip.

Talking "Nouveau" (like "Beaujolais Nouveau" but made in NY) with Finger Lakes' winemakers Lynne Fahy (Keuka Spring Vineyards) and Nathan Kendell (Nathan K Wines and Hickory Hollow Wine Cellars).

Does the "Nouveau" marketing muscle have a future in NY? We think it does.

In this special Valentine's Day episode, friend and fellow sommelier Isabella Fitzgerald joins me as co-host for a chat with the best selling romance author Melanie Harlow, for a conversation on Michigan wine country as a setting in romance fiction.

Ode To The Catawba Grape! 

In this episode, I speak with my friend Christy Frank who shares the story of her beginnings in wine (most useful content!) and we realize that there may need to be a part two to this Catawba story...