That includes wines from Long Island, the Finger Lakes and even New Jersey, which claims more than 40 wineries now.

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She and her husband lived in Trumbull, Connecticut, and "enjoy traveling and spending time at our lake home" in upstate New York's Finger Lakes region.

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Cross the moat into upstate's Finger Lakes kingdom where you can lord over more winery tours and tastings, quaint shops, golfing, museums, history and water sports.

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During the last Ice Age, glaciers moving south carved deep gullies in reddish granite, creating a series of parallel steep-sided mountains interspersed with finger lakes as well as one fjord well, a fjard, actually.

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Rise early the next morning and paddle 17 miles southeast to Waterloo village, located on a section of the Cayuga-Seneca Canal that links two of the state's Finger Lakes -- Cayuga and Seneca -- to the Erie Canal.

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Producers ranging from respected Finger Lakes (New York) Riesling producer Dr. Konstantin Frank Wines to Italy's Ca' Montini, with its popular Luna di Luna brand, have taken advantage of translucent blue and opaque red bottles to differentiate themselves.

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There are exceptions, of course, and two of my favorites are both produced in New York: the Channing Daughters Tocai Friulano, a crisp dry white made from a Friulian grape, and a minerally white Rkatsiteli, a Russian grape grown by Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellars in the Finger Lakes district.

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In Pennsylvania ( Turning for Home), California ( CARMA), New York ( Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program) and other states, racetracks have partnered with aftercare organizations so that a percentage of purse money is allocated to retirement, rescue, and retraining organizations, ensuring a kind of retirement fund for horses, essentially requiring every owner to contribute.

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