Grape Expectations: A trip to Lake Erie resulted in deeper appreciation for PA wines-and some gift ideas
By: M. Diane McCormick, The BURG
Come to Erie, where grape-friendly conditions are infused into soil formed by glaciers and into air moderated, temperature-wise, by the 9,900-square-mile Lake Erie. Everywhere you go, there are grapevines, in sprawling expanses or tucked between homes. The industry jumpstarted with Welch’s and its circa-1897 juice plant built in Westfield, N.Y., just over the Pennsylvania line.
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