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May is Riesling Month in the Finger Lakes

Reported May 10, 2012    |   Leave a Comment

Being a fan of Riesling, I’m excited about May being Riesling Month. Being a huge fan of Finger Lakes Rieslings, I’m excited to have yet another reason to sample some of my favorites and some new finds for the next month.

Finger Lakes Wine Country wineries continue to be recognized globally for their award-winning Rieslings. For those of you who think Riesling equal overly sweet wine, here are some good news – there are fabulous dry, food-friendly Rieslings from the Finger Lakes! Finger Lakes Rieslings fall into three main categories of sweetness: dry, semi-dry and late harvest, the sweet ‘dessert’ wine some, including me, enjoy.

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Wine Equals Friends to import Finger Lakes wines

Reported May 9, 2012    |   Leave a Comment

New York wine specialist Wine Equals Friends has become the sole UK importer of eight Finger Lakes producers.

The Finger Lakes is an American viticulture area in upstate New York, five hours’ drive north east of Manhattan, with its own microclimate influenced by the deep lakes of Seneca, Keuka and Canandaigua.

Wine Equals Friends has taken on Red Newt Cellars, Fox Run Vineyards, Lamoreaux Landing, Hermann J Wiemer, Lakewood Vineyards, Sheldrake Point, Red Tail Ridge and Dr Konstantin Frank.

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Art guild to serve its own wine at luncheon

Reported May 9, 2012    |   Leave a Comment

Rochester Folk Art Guild will serve its own wine at Homegrown, Handthrown, a luncheon on May 19. The event will occur at East Hill Farm, the guild’s 350-acre operation in Middlesex, Yates County.

Guild winemaker and vineyard manager Paul Schliffer says the luncheon will feature a dry wine made from Delaware grapes grown organically in the farm’s one-acre vineyard.

“You can definitely taste the Delaware variety, but it’s still very dry and crisp,” says Schliffer, who has lived full time at East Hill with wife Annie since 1972 and raised three kids there.

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Ravines Wine Cellars Acquires White Springs Winery Vineyards, Production Facility in Significant Expansion

Reported May 8, 2012    |   Leave a Comment

Ravines Wine Cellars has closed on a deal to acquire the White Springs production facility, along with 42 acres of vineyards at the Geneva site. The deal includes an additional 19 acres not under vine.

Owner Morten Hallgren explained that the deal is an acquisition of selective assets, not a merging of the two brands. White Springs owner Carl Fribolin will keep the White Springs Winery brand, along with the White Springs tasting room located on State Route 14. Ravines will custom-make wine for White Springs, which Hallgren had already been doing. Ravines will construct a tasting room within the existing property at the production facility. Hallgren said the new tasting room will be open by early June, while Ravines will continue to operate its tasting room on Keuka Lake.

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Local liquor store allows leashed dogs

Reported May 8, 2012    |   Leave a Comment

Why should Fido miss out on the fun of shopping?

At Georgetown Wine and Spirits in Fairport, leashed dogs don’t have to, says store wine director and certified sommelier Jon Link.

The store’s canine-friendly policy has been in place for years, but “we’ve just never really advertised it,” says Link, who owns a rescued 10-year-old corgi-border collie mix named Margot. “The previous owners actually kept their dog in the office during the day.”

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Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards Adds New Twist To Packaging

Reported May 7, 2012    |   Leave a Comment

Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards is enhancing the packaging of their award winning wines by sealing bottles with the Stelvin® screw cap closure. There has been a large buzz around these caps showing superior benefits over real cork and synthetic cork in maintaining the quality and freshness of the product.
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Everyone wins at the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition 2012

Reported May 7, 2012    |   Leave a Comment

They are still counting the money from the Dinner & Live Auction held Saturday May 5 in Rochester NY, at this year’s Finger Lakes International Wine Competition. All the proceeds will be donated to Camp Good Days for children with cancer.

Everybody wins at the Finger Lakes Wine Competition, the wineries, the judges, and most of all the kids. Even those who do not win a medal have the satisfaction of helping out in an important cause and getting reviewed by renowned judges. This year 3,200 wines from 780 wineries from every US state, 4 Canadian provinces, and 22 countries were entered. 2,600 received medals, and 64 judges from 14 countries volunteered their time for this double blind judging event. Last year $180,000 was raised for Camp Good Days and this year it is expected to surpass that number.

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Izzo’s White Barn Winery opens for season

Reported May 3, 2012    |   Leave a Comment

Cayuga Lake-based Izzo’s White Barn Winery has opened for the season. The three-year-old operation is now pouring 11 wines, including a red made from grapes grown on Owasco Lake – a relatively new frontier for modern-day Finger Lakes vineyards.

White selections include the 2010 Chardonnay, which was made from Seneca Lake-grown fruit and spent minimal time aging in oak, and the 2010 Semi-Dry Riesling.

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Wine bar to open in Geneva, aims to help customers compare Finger Lakes wine with ones from around the world

Reported May 2, 2012    |   Leave a Comment

A wine bar slated to open this spring in Geneva, Ontario County, aims to help customers compare Finger Lakes wine with ones from around the world.

Now more than two years in the works, Microclimate plans to feature flights – or multiple samples served together – that showcase at least one local wine and four more examples made elsewhere from the same grape variety.

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Finger Lakes Riesling entry gets lone U.S. Gold in France

Reported May 1, 2012    |   Leave a Comment

Judges at the prestigious Riesling du Monde competition this year awarded 63 gold medals. However, despite the rise of Rieslings in America, particularly in the Finger Lakes, only one went to an American entry.

Anthony Road Wine Company’s 2009 Finger Lakes Riesling Martini-Reinhardt Selection was awarded a gold medal.

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