About the Seneca Lake Wine Trail 
Surrounding the sapphire waters of Seneca Lake, our 36 wineries invite you to experience a destination rich in history, beauty, and the production of world-class wines. Located in the heart of New York's Finger Lakes Region, our climate supports not only the growth of hardy native grapes and premium hybrids, but also more delicate varieties such as Riesling, Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc and Pinot Noir. Along the Seneca Lake Wine Trail you will truly find a wine to suit every taste. Request information or contact us if you have questions. Journalists can visit our newly built Press Room to find out detailed information on the Trail plus download high resolution images. And to see a newly formed list of the many fine restaurants in our region that proudly serve wine crafted on Seneca Lake, click here.
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This year's Golden Nose Award: A Finger Lakes Wine Experience was a smash hit once again!
More information, including video clips and photos, will be posted in the coming weeks along with detailed information on the event's results. For now, we'll post the Best of Class Award winners:
Sheldrake Point Vineyard
- Summer White
Lakewood Vineyards – Riesling
Goose Watch Winery –
Viognier
Goose Watch Winery – Cabarnet Sauvignon
Hickory Hollow Wine
Cellars – Liquid Wisdom
Seneca Shore Wine Cellars – Sherry
Red Newt
Cellars – Cabarnet Franc
For more information on event results, please visit the website at http://www.goldennose.com.
To read and view an excellent report developed by the local Time-Warner news station, click here. To read another great report on this event from the ubiquitous Finger Lakes Weekend Wino, click here. Or, from Family, Love, Wine Blog, click here. Another blog entry from a Judge here. Jason Fuelner, Lenndevours Finger Lakes Correspondent, wrote this descriptive article. And last, but by no means least, the review from Ken and Theresa Hoggins of Ken's Wine Guide blog is here. And below is a videoclip from two Judge attendees: one an industry professional, the other an enthusiast.
Next year's Golden Nose Event is tentatively scheduled to be hosted once again at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art May 29, 2009, with the main event at the Corning Museum of Glass May 30, 2009.
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Latest News
- With Deck the Halls Weekends around the corner, we are announcing our "12 Wine Days of Christmas" limited edition wine sets! Each bottle features a song from our parody song, performed by several owners and tasting room managers from a variety of
member wineries at the left. For event attendees, click here to download and print the poster you'll need to take full advantage of this fun aspect of our popular event. And as always, a hearty thanks to The Christmas House, our event co-sponsor, that will be giving away the 12th bottle at their remarkable store in Elmira to event attendees that have purchased the first 11 bottles! |
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The Seneca Lake Wine Trail has officially opened up a MySpace page, joining the digital revolution more fully than ever before! Visit our page at: http://www.myspace.com/senecalakewinetrail
to become our official MySpace Friend! And to view our latest YouTube
music video, create entirely by our friend the Finger Lakes Weekend
Wino Blogger, Rob, |
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In order to keep up with the online digital
revolution, the Seneca Lake Wine Trail (SLWA) is undertaking renovations in its online
presence. You may have been a visitor to the SLWA youtube page
already. If not check it out! Paul has been going at a lightning pace
(and if you have met Paul in person, this won't surprise you) to
generate all manner of engaging, exciting, and sometimes silly videos
that may lure you to visit Seneca Lake. (If you have already visited
us, we hope that they will help to bring back some enjoyable memories!) So go ahead, relax, and enjoy the new
site. And...keep a watch out for new exciting features that are coming
soon!
Thanks for being here!
SLWA webmaster
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Recently Anthony Road Winery and Lakewood Vineyards each won a "Jefferson Cup" the Jefferson Cup Invitational in Kansas City, Mo. is is a unique competition where only "the best of the best" wines from around the country are invited to enter and seek a "Jefferson Cup" designation -- the top award essentially like a Double Gold in other competitions. This year's event had 17 of those top awards, including Anthony Road 2007 Finger Lakes Vignoles and Lakewood 2007 Glaciovinum dessert wine.They were among 80 Jefferson Cup nominees (similar to a gold), which also included New York's Chateau Lafayette Reneau 2007 Dry Riesling, Fox Run 2007 Dry Riesling and Hazlitt White Stag.
The wineries of Finger Lakes Wine Country continue to be internationally recognized for their world-class Rieslings and are now making history. Recently twenty 2007 Finger Lakes Rieslings were featured in the December issues of Wine Spectator and Wine & Spirits and received reviews that are considered by the magazines to be very good to excellent. It is the first time in history that so many Finger Lakes wines received scores of 90 and above in any major wine publication. The 2007 vintage was one of the best ever in the Finger Lakes because of the warm, dry growing season.
And good news for next year's wines, as Wine Spectator gave the Finger Lakes Region a grade of "A" for the 2008 harvest! Despite a wetter-than-usual growing season, Finger Lakes vintners are happy with the results of their 2008 harvest, thanks primarily to a stretch of good weather from September through mid-October. "In the Finger Lakes we're used to vintage fluctuations," said Morten Hallgren, owner and winemaker at Ravines Wine Cellars on Keuka Lake, which forms the western edge of the region. "But 2008 was still very unusual." uly was wetter than normal, with a number of thundershowers adding to the disease pressures that are common in this humid grapegrowing area, and growers reported having to undertake aggressive anti-mildew spray programs. But the extra moisture had a benefit, as the region's typically dry August period, when vines sometimes shut down due to drought stress, was virtually eliminated.
Click on the "Read More" link below for additional information on the terrific wines and wineries on Seneca Lake.
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