A French Barn from 1487 Begins a New Life on Seneca Lake
A French barn built in 1487 has been reconstructed above fifty-year-old vines on Seneca Lake. Behind the remarkable setting, a sixth-generation Champagne family is making a serious long-term commitment to the future of New York wine.
1487 Héritage brings a 15th-century structure, a sixth-generation Champagne family and fifty-year-old vines together in Hector. The remarkable setting deserves attention, but the more important story is what the project says about the growing ambition of New York wine.
What happened
On the eastern shore of Seneca Lake, a French barn that has stood for more than five centuries is preparing to begin another life.
1487 Héritage, the new estate created by Céline and Sébastien LeSeurre, will hold its grand opening on October 24 in Hector, New York. Its centrepiece is an oak barn originally built in France in 1487, dismantled in Champagne beam by numbered beam, transported across the Atlantic and reconstructed above the vineyards of Seneca Lake.
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