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The Best Attractions In Branchport

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Hunt Country Vineyards

Letchworth State Park

Glenn H. Curtiss Museum

Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery

Corning Museum of Glass

Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack

Taughannock Falls State Park

Branchport is a hamlet in the town of Jerusalem in Yates County, New York, United States. It is a crossroads community which contains about 85 dwellings, six stores, two churches, a library and a firehouse. The name Branchport comes from its location at the north end of the west branch of the Y shaped Keuka Lake. Keuka is one of the Finger Lakes, a series of long slender lakes located in Western Central New York State.
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The Best Attractions In Branchport

1. Hunt Country Vineyards Branchport
2. Corning Museum of Glass Corning
Corning Incorporated is an American multinational technology company that specializes in specialty glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was known as Corning Glass Works until 1989, when it changed its name to Corning Incorporated. In 1998, Corning divested itself of its consumer lines by selling the Corning Consumer Products Company subsidiary to Borden, but still holds an interest of about 8 percent. As of 2014, Corning had five major business sectors: display technologies, environmental technologies, life sciences, optical communications, and specialty materials. Corning is involved in two joint ventures: Dow Corning and Pittsburgh Corning. Quest Diagnostics and Covance were sp...
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3. Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack Farmington New York State
Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack is a thoroughbred horse-racing track and casino located in Farmington in western New York State, approximately 25 miles southeast of Rochester. The facility is about one mile south of New York State Thruway exit 44.
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4. Taughannock Falls State Park Trumansburg
Taughannock Falls State Park is a 750-acre state park located in the Town of Ulysses in Tompkins County, New York in the United States. The park is northwest of Ithaca near Trumansburg. The park's namesake, Taughannock Falls, is a 215-foot plunge waterfall that is the highest single-drop waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains.
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5. Letchworth State Park Castile
Letchworth State Park is a 14,427-acre state park located in Livingston and Wyoming counties, New York. The park is roughly 17 miles long, following the course of the Genesee River as it flows north through a deep gorge and over several large waterfalls. It is located 35 miles southwest of Rochester and 60 miles southeast of Buffalo, and spans portions of the Livingston County towns of Leicester, Mount Morris, and Portage, as well as the Wyoming County towns of Castile and Genesee Falls. In 1859, industrialist William Pryor Letchworth began purchasing land near the Middle Falls, and started construction of his Glen Iris Estate. In 1906 he bequeathed the 1,000-acre estate to New York, which soon after became the core of the newly created Letchworth State Park.The park prominently features t...
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6. Glenn H. Curtiss Museum Hammondsport
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early as 1904, he began to manufacture engines for airships. In 1908, Curtiss joined the Aerial Experiment Association, a pioneering research group, founded by Alexander Graham Bell at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, to build flying machines. Curtiss made the first officially witnessed flight in North America, won a race at the world's first international air meet in France, and made the first long-distance flight in the United States. His contributions in designing and building aircraft led to the formation of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. H...
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7. Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery Hammondsport
Dr. Konstantin Frank was a viticulturist and winemaker in the Finger Lakes region of New York. He was born in Odessa, Ukraine and received his PhD in viticulture from the Odessa Polytechnic Institute, his thesis being on techniques for growing Vitis vinifera in a cold climate. After working for a time in what was then Soviet Georgia managing a large state-owned vineyard, he came to the United States in 1951. Speaking nine languages, English not being one of them, Frank was forced to take a job as a dishwasher in New York City. When he could save up enough, Frank moved with his family to the Cornell University Geneva Experiment Station in 1953. During the 1950s, he was a consultant to the Gold Seal Winery and established a Vitis vinifera grape nursery. He urged New York State winemakers to ...
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Branchport Videos

Wait over for New York state's ice wine harvest

(18 Jan 2016) US ICE WINE
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AP Television
Branchport, New York, US - 4 January 2016
1. Mid of vineyard worker wearing balaclava picking frozen grapes in the snow
2. Frozen grapes dropping in basket
3. Hooded vineyard worker picking grapes
4. Farm workers loading grapes on moving cart
5. Wide of tractor unloading grape baskets
6. Wide of workers loading grape bins
7. Medium of workers dumping grapes into machine
8. Grapes being processed
9. Grape juice oozing from press
10. Hunt Country Vineyards owner Art Hunt sipping wine
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Art Hunt, Hunt Country Vineyards owner:
When we press the frozen grapes we get this incredibly intense, complex juice, but only a small amount.
12. Various of vineyard workers picking grapes
13. Wide of worker moving bin in vine row
14. Workers loading grape bins
15. Frozen grapes covered with snow
16. Wide of workers pushing grapes into machine
17. Various of grapes going into press machine
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Art Hunt, Hunt Country Vineyards owner:
And so we have a range of flavours when we press the ice wine. It's going to be very complex. We have raisiny, honey, plummy flavours and a good crisp acidity.
AP Television
Altamont, New York, US - 10 January 2016
19. Cork screwed from bottle
20. Ice wine poured into glass
AP Television
Latham, New York, US - 8 January 2016
21. Medium of ice wines on store shelf
22. Medium, bottle picked from shelf
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Ralph Bonavist, All Star Wine & Spirits co-owner:
They sell year-round, for sure. But during the holiday time, ice wines really seem to ramp up in sales.
AP Television
Branchport, New York, US - 4 January 2016
24. Various of workers pushing grapes into press machine
25. Grapes going into machine
26. Spinning press machine with worker in background
27. Juice from press
28. Various of workers picking grapes in snowy vineyard
29. Workers following tractor down row
LEADIN:
The ice wine harvesting season has finally arrived in upstate New York.
This year's mild winter meant winemakers had to wait longer than usual to harvest the frozen grapes, which produce a sweet wine that's a local speciality.
STORYLINE:
When the mercury plummets, it's time to make ice wine in upstate New York.
The key is to pick and press when temperatures are cold enough to freeze the water in the grapes.
Grapes frozen on the vine yield a sweeter, thicker and more concentrated juice.
It contains about 38 percent sugar compared with 22 percent in the juice used to make white table wines.
When we press the frozen grapes we get this incredibly intense, complex juice, but only a small amount, says Hunt Country Vineyards owner Art Hunt.
The Finger Lakes in upstate New York is one of the few wine-growing areas in the US that produces sweet wine with the help of wintry weather.
Some vineyards leave a small portion of grapes on the vine beyond the autumn harvest in the hope of using them for ice wine.
It can be risky. Grapes often get poached by deer and birds or blown down.
But if nothing happens and the weather cooperates, it definitely pays off.
We have a range of flavours when we press the ice wine. It's going to be very complex. We have raisiny, honey, plummy flavours and a good crisp acidity, Hunt says.
Ice wine is quite popular in Canada and has a long history in Germany, but it is still a niche market in the US, where bottles sell for 30 US dollars or more.
Harvest at Hunt Country Vineyards was about a month later than usual this year because of the unseasonably mild weather.
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