All About Baco Noir with Carlo DeVito

<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px;"> <img src="//assets.libsyn.com/show/46773/baco.jpg" alt="" width= "500" height="375" /></p> <p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px;"> <!--StartFragment--><span style= "font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">Are you familiar with Baco Noir. It’s a French-American hybrid grape but don’t let that scare you. It makes a really nice red wine with aging potential. Think of it as a poor man’s Barolo.</span></p> <p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">In this episode of Winephabet Street Lori and I spoke with Carlo DeVito, former owner of Hudson-Chatham Winery in Gent, New York. Carlo grew Baco Noir as well as sourced some from the Finger Lakes. He has in-depth knowledge of Baco and he shares it with us.</span></p> <p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">Winephabet Street is a monthly series where Lori Budd of</span> <a href= "http://https//dracaenawines.com/exploring-the-wine-glass/"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;"> Exploring the Wine Glass</span></a> <span style= "font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">and I work our way through the alphabet exploring wine and wine regions one letter at a time. The show is live on the third Monday at 8pm and is free, but you must register to attend. Put it on your calendar, pour yourself a glass of wine and hang out with us.</span></p> <p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">During this episode I poured a 2010 and 2016 Baco Noir from Hudson-Chatham Winery and a 2016 from Benmarl Winery. It was very interesting to see the aging potential of the wine. I was pretty amazed.</span></p> <p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 18px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">2010 Hudson-Chatham Baco Noir Reserve Casscles Vineya