" NEW HORIZONS: THE TAYLOR WINE STORY " HAMMONDSPORT NEW YORK ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMPANY 45494

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This film "New Horizons: The Taylor Wine Story" was apparently one in a series featuring actor E.G. Marshall as host. The future-looking episode offers a profile of the Taylor Wine family; its history and fight for dominance in the alcoholic beverage arena. Taylor Wine was established in Hammondsport, New York in 1880 by Walter Stephenson Taylor. Walter began with a commercial grape juice company in the New York Finger Lakes region. Two years following, wine production was added and by the 1920's Taylor Wine was firmly established in the American wine industry. Walters’s three sons successfully guided the company through the prohibition period. The company went public in the 1960’s. They achieved a foothold as the most important winery in the north east and by the 1970’s and 1980’s no wino went without a bottle in their cabinet. In 1977, Coca Cola bought the company. A book titled ‘Over a Barrel: the Rise and Fall of New York’s Taylor Wine Company" by Thomas Pellechia details the company’s horrific demise in the mid-1990s.

E. G. Marshall appears with a film reel in hand (:21). Darren McGavin (:53); the prominent American actor announces himself as the host of the show. A reenactment of the start of the winery follows (1:37). Colonial style dressed Walter Taylor and peers handle barrels of wine in 1878. At the vineyards of Keuka Lake is where Taylor began to formulate the idea of the Taylor Winery (1:52). In 1879, he headed for Hammondsport and a 7 acre village (2:12). The film goes silent briefly; the Glenn H. Curtiss museum of local history appears in Steuben County, New York (2:49). The winery follows (2:52). Russell B. Douglas; wine and spirits educator and representative of Taylor Wines (3:00) sits with Darren. The pair discuss the increase of wine consumption in the American society (3:34). He also notes the increased rates of travel among older and younger Americans (4:01). They cite notes from a Bank of America survey (5:15) over alcohol consumption in 1980. Darren questions Taylor Wine company's ability to meet the new demand (5:45). Employees of the winery prune vines in the bitter snow (6:24). Modern machinery runs over the groves (6:47). Hands move dirt around new vines stuck in the land (6:52). A Sunday harvest mass inaugurates the start of the harvest season in the fall (7:11). Farm hands start picking (8:10). Mechanized power pulls grapes from the vines with ease (8:49). The first load of grapes are carted to the winery (9:18). Loads of plum purple grapes pour from trucks onto the conveyor belts (9:29). Grapes get crushed (9:38). Filters purify the juice (9:43) and the juice is aged in large seasoned barrels (9:45). Lab technicians arrive to pull periodic samples (9:51). Wine pulsates through Pyrex tubes (10:11) for the filling lines. A dinner wine is produced (11:31). An airtight closure is stuck onto the bottles (12:01). Front and back labels are stuck on (12:12). Taylor champagne bottles are rotated (14:16) over a series of months. Bottles are sent out from the racks (14:34). A close shot shows the formation of an ice plug (14:52). Bottles are corked (15:25). The seal is stamped on and the gold hood is slipped on by hand (16:27). Bottles of burgundy are stuffed into red boxes (16:52). The film concludes as Darren and Russell Douglas discuss a new blend of wine known as sparkling burgundy (17:49). 

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