Upper Hudson Wine Trail Bill Creates Official Wine Trail for Capital Region

  ALBANY, NY, August 21 –  Governor Andrew Cuomo signed The Upper Hudson Wine Trail Bill (Senate Bill S213A, Assembly Bill A8345) into law to create the first wine trail in New York’s Capital Region. The wine trail… Read More

Harvest 2016 Featured in Saratoga Living Magazine

Friends Gather for the Harvest The 2016 harvest is our best year yet for producing abundant high quality grapes from our vineyard. We just could not pick all of the grapes in one harvest so we had two!  Fortunately, our vineyard… Read More

Harvest Featured in Wine & Craft Beverage News

  News Spreads About Harvest at Northern Cross Vineyard Our 2016 harvest proved to be an embarrassment of riches.  First off, the vineyard produced a record setting, high quality grape yield that required two harvest parties.Secondly, we can now… Read More

What’s in a Name? The Founding of the Upper Hudson AVA

    What’s an AVA? Probably your first question is ‘what the heck is the Upper Hudson AVA?’  An AVA or American Viticultural Area is ‘a designated wine grape-growing region in the United States distinguishable by geographic features,… Read More

Northern Cross Making News

  Thank you News 10 for visiting Northern Cross Vineyard and getting the word out! The New York is going to have another American Viticultural Area! It was delightful to meet Mary Wilson and to let the Capital… Read More