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New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli paid a visit this week to the New York Wine & Culinary Center, where a small group of industry representatives enjoyed a luncheon meeting with him and some of his staff members.
The Comptroller is an elected official who has wide-ranging responsibility for the State's finances, and we appreciated his wanting to know more about the grape and wine industry's growth and aspirations. He was clearly impressed with our economic impact ($3.76 billion annually) and the fact that 55 of 62 New York counties now have wineries, making wine a statewide industry.
Jim Trezise of Penn Yan has been the President of the New York Wine & Grape Foundation since 1985 and President of the International Riesling Foundation since 2011.
