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J. Stephen Casscles is an attorney, winemaker, and 
horticultural writer living in the Hudson Valley. His 
publications include Grapes of the Hudson Valley and 
Other Cool Climate Regions of the United States 
and Canada, published by Flint Mine Press. 
