It won a silver medal at the yearly New York State wine contest in August.
For the first time, New York's annual statewide wine contest is going to take place in Long Island wine country.
Semidry Finger Lakes whites made from hybrid grapes won medals in New York's annual wine contest this month.
EAST END producers dominated red wine categories but showed weakly last week in most white wine categories in the 2002 statewide wine contest.
The wine contest, sponsored by the Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the State Department of Agriculture's Wine Industry Advisory Council, was held at the Rutgers Fruit Research and Extension Center in Cream Ridge, Monmouth County, in March.
And why isn't the winery trumpeting the 6025, which won a gold medal in the New York State wine contest this month?
Although this North Fork property had not yet opened for business, Salvatore A. Diliberto's food-friendly reds won three gold medals in the annual New York State wine contest nearly two weeks ago.
"It's like judging the bottles in a wine contest by the labels only without tasting their content," says Alberto Baccini, a professor of political economics at the University of Siena.
So drawing on his background in statistics, Hodgson approached the organisers of the California State Fair wine competition, the oldest contest of its kind in North America, and proposed an experiment for their annual June tasting sessions.
The winner of the wine popularity contest in 2000 was Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards in Windsor, Calif.
