The annual Wine America Congressional Tasting delivered once again with a new state wine, in this case, Kentucky and the StoneBrook Winery Vidal Blanc ($13). The winery is located in the western part of the Bluegrass state just south of Cincinnati Ohio in the Ohio River Valley AVA. This viticultural area is the second largest in the U.S., spanning portions of four states (Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky) and encompassing 26,000 square miles. This region also possesses a long history of grape growing going back to the early 1820s with Catawba and Isabella the featured grapes. In most cases French hybrids have now replaced these native Labrusca grapes. 
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StoneBrook Winery is a 5th generation farm composed of two farmsteads dating back to the 1870s and 1890s. Their tasting room is located in the remodeled Kool House originally constructed in the 1890s. Their Vidal Blanc was the winery's first estate wine and is fresh and floral on the nose, transitions to a sweet pear and grapefruit flavor finishing with decent acids to balance the sugar. I'm sure this is their best seller. Cheers.
