3-483: The Garden State Wine Growers Association (GSWGA) is an industry trade association established as an advocate for New Jersey's wine grape growers, providing leadership on research and education programs, public policies, sustainable farming practices and trade policy to enhance the New Jersey wine grape growing business and communities. The association sponsors multiple wine festivals each year. Vintage North Jersey,
6-608: A subsidiary of the Garden State Wine Growers Association, was founded in 2013. Vintage North Jersey includes ten wineries in northwestern New Jersey, and received a $ 16,000 tourism grant from the state of New Jersey. Of New Jersey's 48 wineries, 40 are members of the Garden State Wine Growers Association. The 10 GSWGA wineries that are also members of Vintage North Jersey are marked with "(VNJ)" Wine festival Annual wine festivals celebrate viticulture and usually occur after
9-530: The harvest of the grapes which, in the northern hemisphere, generally falls at the end of September and runs until well into October or later. They are common in most wine regions around the world and are to be considered in the tradition of other harvest festivals. The Egyptian god Osiris was dedicated to wine, but the oldest historically documented wine festivals can be traced back to the Greek celebrations for their wine god Dionysos . The typical ingredients of
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