Chris Stamp from Lakewood Vineyards in Watkins Glen lets wine enthusiasts laugh at themselves in this funny call to stop wine snobbery. Drink Labrusca wine!

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Speaker: The point that I want to make, a lot of times we hear from the wine critics and the press how people just start interest in drinking native American wines in the bar. Obviously, too fruity and they are too sweet. They are way grapy. The critics just will -- the wine writers just they totally ignore them and entrepreneurs make them and real people drink them. By God, and it's still going on today, yeah. So obviously, there is a real disconnect between a lot of wine writers and critics about these American grapes. I think that sitting here at this table, we can really admit that the cash counts in the winery are these wines. These sweeter fruity wines, because -- I don't know what they are treated to entirely, but I wonder if it's one -- we are exposed to these flavors when we are young. Great Candy, Walter's Grape Juice Concord, and it's an easy week when we say, it sounds as well -- you know wine is good for you ,and so it's an easy job for some of us. Of course everybody drinks beer when they are hunting for, they ues to I mean. So it's easy an week when they want to try wine. they are going to go with something they are familiar with, and a lot of times that's something like Red Can or Niagara or something time forth for and a lot of people really tasting wine doesn't have to be a competition to see if they can get down and drink just dry wine. It's not a competition at all. They drink what they enjoy and these wines are very easy to enjoy. I do a lot -- drinking all flavors of wines. Although, I got admit now. I like what -- I mean you come in and taste, what kind of wines you like. Well, there was a time when I would have said sweet wine, but in then, there was a time after that where I said, you know, some of dry, then there was a time after that when I said, I prefer just dry wine, and then there is a point in your life where to transcend that whole scale and you say, I like them all. I don't have to just drink dry wine or sweet wine. Man! I transcended that whole thing. Now I am a superior being and I can tell you that (Voice Overlap). I can drink them all. Mix them together, I don't care. So but my point is this, I am not alone. I think true wine lovers don't just let one kind of wine. We like to all experiment it, we like to try different things and they all have a little different application. I do not want to drink a big can of Rioja, when I am sitting on the porch and it's blazing out there. So I'll have a glass of Ambrose or Red Cay or Niagara or maybe even drop a cube of ice in it. I'll take it out immediately of course, but yeah, you know you can mix them with the wine, because it's not about being a wine guru, it's about drinking lots of wine and enjoying, and that's why these wines are so popular, because a lot people don't ignore wine critics and all the other craps that comes out and say, you know what, I am going to trust my own palate. I am not going with what Robert Parking says that she will be drinking. So, I swear, I think these wines are very popular.