Crespina and Staten Island team up - The first Tuscan red 'Made in New York' are set to be produced within the next three years.
A full harvest is expected by the fourth year thanks to the Tuscan Garden Vineyard - a project brought about thanks to the sister cities agreement between Crespina (near Pisa) and Staten Island, New York.
The city's botanical gardens will be home to two acres of Tuscan vineyards with 2,100 vines divided into 58 traditional Tuscan rows.
The vines - which are natively Tuscan but cannot be exported directly from Italy due to American sanitation laws - will be purchased from the largest Italian grower in the United States (based in California).
The Tuscan Garden Vineyard will host a Tuscan wine shop and will be an information centre for Tuscan wines in general, including publications on the subject as well as hosting oenology and wine tasting courses.
