View the Hart-Cluett House and decorations of the
70th Annual Holiday Greens Show through the allure of Candlelight!
Join the Hart Cluett Museum on Saturday evening for a candlelit guided tour of the Hart-Cluett House. Afterwards, enjoy a Holiday Wine Tasting and Talk with wine expert J. Stephen Casscles and samples from Dear Native Grapes, a Walton NY based vineyard, as part of this year's Annual Holiday Greens Show: 70 years of Holiday Splendor!
Guided tours will leave promptly at 5:30pm and are followed up the Holiday Wine Tasting at 6:30pm. Light refreshments and four wine samples are included with each ticket purchase for the single tour time.
5:30 PM Guided Candlelight Tour followed by 6:30 PM Holiday Wine Tasting
Limited slots available, this event will sell out!
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J. Stephen Casscles is a local, award-winning winemaker and the author of, "Grapes of the Hudson Valley and Cool Climate, 19th Century Heritage Hudson Valley & New England grapes". He comes from a fruit-growing family rooted in the Hudson Valley since the 1870s. Casscles's own fruit-growing experience began in the 1970s, when he also produced his first wines. In 1990, he established a four-acre vineyard, Cedar Cliff, in Athens, NY, where he has concentrated on identifying, growing, evaluating, and propagating heirloom grape varieties that were first developed in New York in the mid-nineteenth century. As a government attorney for the New York State Senate, Casscles authored more than twenty-two laws related to the production, distribution, and sale of wine, spirits, beer, and cider.
dear native grapes, is a small vineyard and winery run by Deanna Urciuoli & Alfie Alcántara. They are focused on growing North American native and hybrid grapes in order to make exceptionally wild natural wine.
In the mid-1800s, America had a blossoming wine industry. Native and hybrid grapes were praised by winegrowers for their extraordinary flavors and natural resilience. But then Prohibition swept through, and these valuable varieties fell by the wayside. Located in the Catskill Mountains, dear native grapes, is a project dedicated to restoring America’s viticultural heritage. Their wine-growing methods are modeled after holistic and regenerative philosophies, applied both on the farm and in the cellar. https://www.dearnativegrapes.com/
The Hart Cluett Museum is operated by Historic Rensselaer County (Rensselaer County Historical Society), a dynamic not-for-profit educational organization established in 1927 to connect local history and heritage with contemporary life. We enrich the present and advocate for the future by bringing the region's past to life, recognizing every face and every story. In pursuit of this mission, we collect, preserve, study, interpret, and make accessible a broad variety of objects and documents. We also conduct educational programs that inspire public enthusiasm for our roots and bolster the entrepreneurial appetites of our community.
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