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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For those of you not familiar with TripAdvisor.com, it is a frequently visited website where folks just like yourself review the quality of hotels, accomodations, and other travel related businesses. The Seneca Lake Wine Trail itself can also be reviewed, and we encourage you to submit your opinion to them.
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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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Glenora Rieslings recently got some great accolades including Best US Riesling $20 and under for its 2007 Riesling, and another Gold medal for its 2006 Riesling, at the Beverage Testing Institute’s 2008 World Value Wine Challenge. In addition, the 2007 received a 92 rating and tied with a Spatlese from Germany’s Mosel region for the second highest rating in a class of more than 180 wines. On the other side of the globe, Prejean 2007 Riesling took a rare Gold medal in the Canberra (Australia) Riesling Challenge, joined by Bronze medals from other New York wineries, which accounted for 7 of the top 11 wines from the U.S.
The wineries of Finger Lakes Wine Country continue to receive excellent reviews by some of the world’s top wine critics. Recently David Schildknecht of the Wine Advocate, published by Robert Parker, one of the world’s most influential wine critics, rated two Finger Lakes wines from the 2007 vintage. The 2007 vintage was one of the best in recent history for the Finger Lakes. The warm, dry season created excellent growing conditions for many varietals including Riesling and Cabernet Franc.
Lamoreaux Landing 2007 Finger Lakes Cabernet Franc T 23 score: 88 / $18
Anthony Road 2007 Finger Lakes Riesling Semi Dry score: 86 / $15
With this year’s harvest already underway, the 2008 holds promise as being as another excellent year for white varietals, especially Riesling, the region’s flagship grape. Grape growers and winemakers report similar conditions in 2008 to 2007 but with more rain.
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