Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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100 Mill River's emphasis on bringing the past into the present marries well with Martin's overarching mission of bringing California flavors from the Bear State to Massachusetts; it isn't just a coincidence that Mill River flies the California state flag. For Martin, with a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry, the goal is creating wines that mirror Californian wines via science. She points to research conducted at Cornell University and the University of Minnesota that has yielded wine grapes both sturdy enough to thrive in the New England climate and equal to California-grown grapes in flavor. Perhaps to no one's surprise, New Englanders love drink- ing California wines. The idea of finding wine of that persuasion made in one's own backyard is enticing. "Now the technology has gotten to a point where we can grow grapes that we can ferment and make into wines that are dry, with a tannic structure that's able to rival a merlot that would be grown in California," says Martin, visibly excited by the shop talk. (You'd need a blind taste test to say for sure, but Mill River's Merlot