NPR: Frontenac Blanc Bottled in New York
Today, National Public Radio did a national four-minute segment on cold climate grapes and wine! Considering NPR reaches 19 million people per month, today’s radio segment by David Sommerstein is probably the largest public relations plug ever for cold hardy wines. (Some of his facts about Frontenac don’t sound exactly correct, but who’s nitpicking such a great report?)
NPR also broke a piece of news in the report: Coyote Moon Vineyards in Clayton, New York has the first commercial Frontenac blanc for sale. (The University of Minnesota, who developed the grape, does not capitalize the “b” in “blanc” but Coyote Moon does. Midwest Wine would like to propose that the second word in all grape names be capitalized.)
Take a listen at: http://www.npr.org/2013/05/16/184399442/researchers-dont-wine-about-cold-weather-their-grapes-thrive