Produced in the Hudson Valley! The Shawangunk Wine Trail offers the most diversity of any wine trail. It is home to America's oldest continuously operated winery and the nation's oldest vineyard! Wines produced in the region range from dry complex wines to soft fruity wines, to sparkling and outstanding dessert wines. Let us not forget hand-crafted award-winning spirits and deliciously crisp hard ciders too! The Shawangunk Wine Trail is the closest wine trail to New York City, Westchester, Albany, Bergen County NJ, and Connecticut and is conveniently located 85 miles north of New York City, 72 miles south of Albany, and 40 miles west of Danbury CT. The Shawangunk Wine Trail is easily accessible by the New York State Thruway at Exits 16, 17, and 18, from Route 17 at Exit 119 and I84 West - 9W North & Union Avenue Exit. Shawangunk Wine Trail is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization consisting of 13 independently owned and operated wineries in the Mid-Hudson Valley region of New York State. Our primary mission is to cooperatively develop an outstanding wine-producing and tourism area through marketing and events while promoting the wineries of the SWT.