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Wine Guide
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Wine Trails
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Cayuga Wine Trail
Established in 1983, the Cayuga Wine Trail is the longest-running wine trail in America. It offers a variety that is unmatched in wine touring and tasting. Visitors can travel to different wineries, cideries, distilleries, a meadery, and a taproom. Along the trail, travelers have the pleasure of experiencing attractions, comfortable lodgings, fine restaurants, friendly people, splendid scenery, and, of course, a multitude of premium wines that have earned over 6,000 national and international medals.
Seneca Lake Wine Trail
The Seneca Lake Wine Trail, part of the Seneca Lake Winery Association, is dedicated to promoting its 29 member wineries. The trail, which celebrated 35 years in 2021, is located in the Finger Lakes Wine Country, New York. Since its founding in 1986, the Finger Lakes Wine Country has become an extraordinary wine and grape-growing destination for visitors from around the world.
Keuka Lake Wine Trail
The Finger Lakes of New York is the largest and most celebrated wine-producing region in the Eastern United States. Keuka Lake, whose spectacular beauty and glacially deposited soils inspired early grape cultivation and the birth of America’s wine industry, resides in this region. The Keuka Lake Wine Trail’s wineries craft some of the most beautifully balanced and vibrant wines. Visitors can experience a truly memorable getaway by visiting the many wineries that are open daily, year-round.
Finger Lakes Wine Festival
(607) 535-2486 flwinefest.com
Experience the event that readers of "USA Today" have voted the country's "Best Wine Festival." A One-Day or Two-Day weekend Taster Wristband gives festival-goers access to the Watkins Glen International facility grounds and the Finger Lakes Wine Festival. Experience tastings at over 90 wineries in climate-controlled tents, a diverse range of food vendors and unique craft and art purveyors, live music performances, outdoor demonstrations, educational wine seminars, and more! The best part? It's all in the heart of New York's famous Finger Lakes Wine Country. A valid photo I.D. is required to participate in festival activities.
Wine Fact
The top wine producing countries of the world are Italy, France, and Spain. The U.S. comes in 4th .
Wineries/Businesses
Pail Shop Vineyards
124 Goose St. Fly Creek, NY 13337 (607) 282-4035 pailshopvineyards.com
Pail Shop Vineyards, Winery, and Tasting Room makes small production wines in a converted barn looking out over the hills of beautiful Fly Creek Valley. They crush, press, ferment, and age their wines on-site, sourcing grapes from the best growing regions throughout New York. They make six wines, ranging from dry to sweet, and make their Painted Pail Red sangria by the bucketful. They have 40 acres of grounds, a hillside vineyard, picnic tables, Adirondack chairs around the pond, and the perfect location for a picnic and a glass of wine.
Villa Verona Vineyard & Bistro
4914 State Route 365 Verona, NY 13478 (315) 363-3300 villaveronavineyard.com
The Villa Verona Vineyard was the first winery in Oneida County. The wines are made with lots of care right on property within five stainless steel tanks and five wooden oak barrels. Guests are able to see where the ‘magic’ happens in the Tasting Room and Winery during hours of operation. The bistro features a farm-to-table menu for both lunch and dinner. It offers a fine dining experience with sensible pricing. In the tasting room, 14 different wines, from sweet to dry, along with wine slushies and unique gifts, are all featured.
Owera Vineyards
Owera Vineyards is a picturesque rural and groomed farm winery that includes vines, gardens, ponds, and orchards. Enjoy the tasting room, which houses award-winning Rieslings and delicious blends that are complemented by a drier Chardonnay, Owahgena Red, and a favorite, Betty's White. The wine experience at Owera Vineyards can be completed by enjoying an array of brick oven pizzas, boards, and small plates that are made to complement the wines.
Anyela's Vineyards
The story of Anyela's Vineyards began three generations ago in Eastern Europe. It is continued today by the Nocek family on the hillside high above Skaneateles Lake. At Anyela's Vineyards, viticultural experience is combined with cooler climate patterns and fertile soil to grow select grapes. Unlike other vineyards along neighboring Finger Lakes, Anyela’s Vineyards protect their vines from the cold after the fall harvest. One by one, they carefully remove them from the trellises and bury them in the rich earth to insulate the sensitive primary buds, which eventually become the fruit. In spring, they re-trellis the vine for maximum sun exposure. They also control their grape yield to cultivate the ripest, most flavorful fruit.
Public Relations and Communications Intern Alanna Manning
