New York Wine and Culinary Center opens this Friday

by Andrew Barrow, Posted Jun 13th 2006 @ 10:09AM

With an investment of US$7. 5m, the nonprofit center, The New York Wine and Culinary Center (the equivalent of Napa's Copia) is to be the home of the New York Wine and Grape Foundation. It is based in Canandaigua in the Finger Lakes wine region.

The foundation looks after 210 wine producers making the state's wine industry the fourth largest in America. Finger Lakes is one of New York's two main wine regions the other being Long Island.

Each week, the Center's wine tasting room will feature a new menu of New York wines, which can be bought in bulk. The Taste of New York Lounge will offer dishes paired with wines, and there will also be a focus on wine education, wine and food matching and cooking using local ingredients. The cooking courses in particular sound very interesting.

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