NEWS OF GRAPES AND WINES IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
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Early crush continues despite wet grapes; wineries report that flavors are thin but balanced
eneva, N.Y.—In less than two weeks of late August and early September, East Coast states from North Carolina to New England were drenched with pounding rains. How did this
affect the region's ripening vineyards and wineries they supply? The composite map published by the National Oceanic and At- mospheric Administration (see page 88) shows where the heaviest
rains fell along the East Coast during the period from Aug. 26 through Sept. 9. The dark blue color on the map, next page, that stretches from eastern North Carolina north through Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and into Vermont represents an area that received between 24 and 32 inches of rain from Hurricane Irene and the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee.
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