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The Finger Lakes are home to over 150 wineries, producing a wide variety of wines. Riesling is the region's signature wine, but you'll also find excellent chardonnay, pinot gris, cabernet ...
The Finger Lakes region has been making wine since the 1800s, when Champagne-style sparkling wines were all the rage. Now the area is experiencing something of a bubbly renaissance, with pét-nat ...
This year's Finger Lakes Wine Festival event is being held 51 years after more than 600,000 people filled the track for Summer Jam, a rock festival, held the last weekend of July 1973.
The Finger Lakes, the dreamy Upstate New York region renowned for its seemingly endless wineries, vineyards and glittering lakes, has been named one of the 10 must-visit wine regions in the United ...
Whether you're already a fan of sweet wine, or want to test the waters with some of the best and most balanced around, read on for five wineries well worth a visit in the Finger Lakes.
Wine tasting at Hermann J. Weimer Vineyard along Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes. Along the Gorge Trail at Watkins Glen State Park in New York.
You can have your own wine country road trip with the help of four Finger Lakes Trails, tourist associations set up to guide you around the area’s scenery and vineyards. And there is no nicer ...
Wineries such as Dr. Konstantin Frank and Hermann J. Wiemer originally raised the profile of the Finger Lakes in the 1960s and ’70s with excellent wines made from European grape varieties.
Hector, N.Y. — Hazlitt’s Red Cat, one of the best-selling wines made in the Finger Lakes, has long been known as a party favorite. Now you can add hard seltzer to that party. Hazlitt 1852 ...
To learn more about what makes the Finger Lakes so special, I also reached out to three notable figures in the region's wine scene: Christopher Bates, a master sommelier, chef, and owner of the ...