Directly across Seneca Lake from the salt caverns, California winemaker Paul Hobbs and Mosel icon Johannes Selbach have begun planting a 45-acre vineyard of (mostly) riesling. More “outsiders,” they represent the most ambitious European-connected venture into the Finger Lakes wine renaissance to date. On December 7, Hobbs-Selbach and the investors at Forge Cellars (the other recent foreign venture on Seneca) both made public letters to Gov. Cuomo calling on him to block the Crestwood project. Hobbs and Selbach state “we are considering holding off the further development of these vineyards and a visitors center, a multimillion dollar project, until the question of gas storage expansion is resolved. We believe that the outcome of both the natural gas and LPG storage expansion struggle… will have an extremely positive or severely negative impact on future Finger Lakes wine industry and tourism investments from around the world.”
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 01:30:56 +0000
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