‍Written by Sarah Daniels for Wine Enthusiast. January 18, 2018.

‍An hour from the famed Finger Lakes wine region, Rochester, New York’s third-largest city, boasts a successful craft beer industry and, now, an emerging wine culture of its own. Exemplifying that is Living Roots Wine & Co., a unique operation making wines with fruit from vastly different environments: the nearby region and South Australia.

Owned by husband-and-wife team Sebastian & Colleen Hardy, the two take on transcontinental harvests with admirable rigor. We catch up with the couple in between international flights to find out why they go through the trouble of sourcing grapes from two different hemispheres.