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“Don't forget the vegetables.
Grilled eggplant is a great pairing for any red with a little bit of toasted oak characteristics.”
—Grace Winery’s Andrew Yingst
massal selections from 11 different nebbiolo clones grown on his farm— “which we humbly believe are the most grown in the U.S,” he says.
Cody farms his own petit verdot grapes. The variety often plays third fiddle in Bordeaux’s traditional blended wines, but it’s often its own varietal wine on the East Coast. Kyle Jones is also a fan of petit verdot. He purchased Kreutz Creek Winery in West Grove a few years ago and has reconfigured it as Acadian Wine Company. He’s been utilizing his contacts from years of winemaking in Pennsylvania to buy many of his grapes until his own production comes online. “The petit verdot varietal that currently sits on my wine list was grown in the Lehigh Valley just outside of Kutztown,” Jones says. “Picked on Oct. 6, 2022, it was fully de-stemmed, had a14-day maceration and spent 14 months aging in an American oak barrique.”
Only 38 cases of the wine were produced. “I enjoy picking up small lots of fruit and offering limited production varietals to show off the many
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