Canadian wines

[Thomas]

NY State is the fourth largest wine-producing state in the USA, after CA, WA, and OR.Along with the distribution problems that IK aptly reported, NY suffers from a relative lack of savvy. My store is in NY City (which at last count was still within NY State) but the last order for a NY wine that I placed took over two weeks to get to me, well after the date of the event in which I intended to include the wine.

Many upstate NY wineries carp about not getting respect in NY City, but so many are afraid to send a rep or to make proper arrangements with a distributor (UPS shipments in the summer come hot to the touch). There is one small distributor handling small NY wineries but the company chooses to only sell to restaurants--can't charge retailers (or overcharge) as much as it gets away with at restaurants.

This is extremely frustrating for me, since I am one guy who knows a lot about upstate wines and whose store wants to carry them, but few wineries make an attempt to help me do so.