The state in the north-east of the USA with the capital Albany covers 141,300 km². It borders the Canadian province of Ontario to the north, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut to the east, New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Lake Erie and Lake Ontario to the west. New York was admitted to the Union in 1788 as the eleventh state. The metropolis of New York City is considered one of the most important trading centres for wine in the USA.

European immigrants were already attempting to grow wine on the northern east coast at the beginning of the 17th century. However, the native vines of the predominant species Vitis labrusca only produced simple wines with a pronounced and unpleasant flavour for the European palate foxy. The introduced European varieties perished relatively quickly due to phylloxera infestation; however, the cause was still unknown at the time.
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