New Hampshire's winemakers work with cold-resistant hybrid grapes and apples, in settings from the Seacoast to the White Mountains. Browse the wineries on Cruv's map and check the events ahead.
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New Hampshire has no federally designated American Viticultural Area (AVA). The New Hampshire Winery Association lists its member wineries under six tourist regions: White Mountains, Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee, Lakes, Monadnock, Merrimack Valley and Seacoast. The association's 2020 grower survey found most of the vines it counted in the southeast. Most grapes are French-American hybrids that resist cold. The Seacoast is typically warmer and the White Mountains much colder, so growers outside the Seacoast lean toward cold-hardy varieties. Ciders and meads are made here too. Plan a designated driver, a rideshare or a tour for each tasting day.
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Most of New Hampshire's wine grapes are French-American hybrids that tolerate cold. Cool-climate varieties are favored on the Seacoast, while the rest of the state leans toward cold-hardy ones. In the winery association's 2020 grower survey, respondents reported more than two dozen varieties.
White
Cayuga is a white hybrid with the largest share of planted vines in the association's 2020 survey, all of it in southeastern New Hampshire. It is highly regarded for light, citrus-tinged wines, from dry and sparkling to sweet late-harvest ones.
Red
Maréchal Foch is a cold-hardy red the association calls popular and widespread across the northern states and Canada. It held one of the larger vine shares in the 2020 survey and grows in the southeast and elsewhere in the state.
Red
Marquette is a cold-hardy red grown in the southeast and in other parts of the state, with cherry, berry and pepper notes. The 2020 survey also lists it among the leading varieties in new plantings.
White
La Crescent is a cold-hardy white that two southeastern growers named a signature grape in the 2020 survey, where it also ranked among the larger plantings statewide. It shows stone fruit, citrus and pineapple notes.
White
Niagara is a floral white grape native to New York, grouped with the cool-climate varieties that suit the Seacoast. In the 2020 survey it was among the grapes grown by the most southeastern producers and a leader in new plantings.
