"We're very much like northern France, with the same average temperature variation," he said. But out his window, there was little to be seen but hills and vines. "There's nothing else you can do." A lot of people seem to believe New Jersey is all industrial, he said. "You just have to keep promoting it," he said. Fisher is familiar with the stigma faced by the state's wine. The small, wood-paneled tasting room offers views of the winemaking facilities, in a small building across the driveway. "It's all aged and pressed on the property," he said from behind the counter of his tasting room, where some bottles were weighed down with four or five medals, some from an event called the New Jersey Wine Competition.
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Jeffrey Fisher, the owner and vintner at Amwell Valley, makes his American-oak-aged Landot noirs and crisp seyval blancs with the help of just one other person, plus hired harvesters. (An annual spring tour offered by the Sourland Planning Council lets visitors drive up to that house, now a home for troubled young people, and see the window of the second-story room where the Lindbergh baby slept before his kidnapping.) The Amwell Valley Vineyard, with 13.5 acres under cultivation, is tucked beneath the mysterious Sourland Mountains, high hills where compasses can reportedly lose their magnetism, and not far from the old Charles A. Start by finding your way to Ringoes, a place not so eccentrically named as it might first seem it comes from an 18th-century tavern keeper named John Ringo. In Hunterdon, a trip to a couple of them also leads naturally to a stop in Lambertville, where the browsing is good not only for wine lovers, but also for lovers of antiques, boutique wares and a good meal.
The state publishes a brochure describing 12 wine trails. Some of the wines have won awards some are offered at expensive restaurants. If the path through the chill heads in the right direction, the rewards can be cheerful conversation and a warming glass of wine at a tasting room. In winter, the landscape is muted into shades of gray and the touring is more likely to be by car, but the narrow roads winding through open fields and past small woodlands still invite exploration.
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THE rural areas of Hunterdon County, N.J., east of the Delaware River and south of Phillipsburg, resemble Amish country, with rolling hills that make a cyclist long for a few free hours.
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