Some Capital Region wineries are not located in one of New York`s four wine regions, which limits what can be written on the label. But now local vineyards are on their way to creating a designated wine region in Upstate New York called the Upper Hudson.

Andrew Weber owns Northern Cross Vineyard in Easton.

`The question we get asked most often is `where are your vines,` or `do you have vines,` he said. `And we can say, yeah, and you can look outside the window and see there`s two acres of them down there.`

But that wouldn’t be known just by looking at the label because Weber`s vineyard doesn`t fall into a federally designated wine region. Therefore, the bottle can only say it’s `bottled` at the vineyard, which doesn`t reflect the work that goes into it.

`There are plenty of folks who bring in grapes from other regions or concentrate from other regions and make wine here, but it`s not as authentic as some of the folks are looking for,` Weber said.

So to differentiate his vineyard from those, he submitted a petition to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to call for a 1,500 sq. mile wine region that’s already home to 16 wineries – and soon, there could be more.

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