We host two separate Deck the Halls event weekends each year. One in November and the other in December  

33 wineries are participating in 2009.  (These two wineries do not participate in the event at all: Miles Wine Cellars & Red Tail Ridge Winery).

This is mostly a three day weekend event - you can go any one day, or come out for the whole weekend!

2008 INFORMATION:

"12 WINE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS" (updated 1/30/08)

To view and print a PDF of the poster for this program, click here . This simply poster can be taken around with you during the event and, as you purchase a bottle of the wine series at each participating location (noted below) then that winery will stamp your poster. Collect 11 stamps and get the 12th bottle at our event sponsor The Christmas House in Elmira for free!

For the second year in a row The Christmas House will co-sponsor Deck the Halls in the "12 Wine Days of Christmas". Located just 30 minutes south of the Trail, in Elmira, New York, The Christmas House is a very popular, incredibly unique destination specializing in a wide variety of holiday-themed retail items from an array of manufacturers. A visit to their shop is worth the drive and experience with everything you'll see.

11 wineries will be selling a custom label, limited edition wine for sale during the event reflecting our parody song "The Twelve Wine Days of Christmas" with the 12th bottle available at our event sponsor's business The Christmas House! The song and assigned wineries are as follows.

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Twelve bottles filling (Amberg Wine Cellars)
Eleven corks a popping, (White Springs Winery)
Ten skins a crushing, (Seneca Shore Wine Cellars)
Nine barrels rolling, (Glenora Wine Cellars)
Eight presses pressing, (Fulkerson Winery)
Seven casks a filling, (Lakewood Vineyards)
Six experts tasting, (Cascata Winery at the Professors' Place)
Five green vines, (Atwater Estate Vineyards)
Four coopers building, (Leidenfrost Vineyard)
Three tractors trimming, (Penguin Bay Winery & Champagne House)
Two pourers pouring, (Wagner Vineyards)
and A Vintner in a vineyard, (The Christmas House)

The following are just a few of the labels that the participating wineries have creatively designed in support of this unique program:

2008 RECIPES  

3 Bean Delight (with beef), Rock Stream Vineyards
Brie En Croute, Passion Feet Vineyards & Wine Barn 
Cake, Peach Gingerbread Upside-Down Cake, Fulkerson Winery
Cake, Liquid Wisdome Wine Cake, Hickory Hollow Wine Cellars
Cake, Phantom Sherry Cake, Arcadian Estate Winery 
Cake,  No-bake Chocolate Cheese Cake, Amberg Wine Cellars 
Cake, Veraisons Restaurant Eggnog Cheesecake, Glenora Wine Cellars 
Casserole, Baked Chicken Casserole with Dried Apricots, Goat Cheese & Pistachios at Fox Run Vineyards, served with Semi-dry Riesling 
Cherry Fluff, Penguine Bay Winery & Champagne House 
Chili, Emperors' Chili at Bloomer Creek Vineyards, made and served with Red Emperor 
Chili, Magic Snow Whote Chili at Seneca Shore Wine Cellars served with Traminette 
Cookies, Mostaccioli Bellangelo (glazed chocolate cookies), Villa Bellangeo
Frankfurters, Glazed Hots,  served with Caywood Vineyards' Pleasant Valley Sparkling Burgundy
French Toast, Cascata's Eggnog Apple French Toast, served with Mag-Mosa (Maggie & OJ) 
Kabobs, Wine Glazed Mini Chicken Kabobs at Wagner Vineyards 
Meatballs, Apple Cider & Chardonnay Glazed Game Bird, Belhurst Winery
Nachos, Leidenfrost Vineyards
Peach Bellini, Nagy's Newland Vineyards 
Pie, Holiday Jewel, served with Earle Estates Winery & Meadery 's Black Jewel or Blackberry Blush
Pork, Steamed Pork Buns (Char Siu Bao), served with Anthony Road Wine Company's Vignoles
Pumpkin Bars, Chateau LaFayette Reneau
Pumpkin Spice Bars, Red Newt Cellars 
Pudding, Figgy Pudding with Port Wine Sauce, Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards 
Rigatoni, Baked Rigatoni with Sausage & Broccoli (vegetarian option available), Atwater Estate Vineyards 
Salad, Frog Eye Salad, Tickle Hill Winery 
Salad, Asian Noodle Salad, Stony Lonesome Wine Cellars 
Salsa, Crooked Birch Black Bean & Corn Salsa, Rouges Hollow Winery 
Shrimp, Party Shrimp served with Torrey Ridge Winery  Diamond
Soup, Castel Grisch European Beer Cheese Soup 
Stew, Lakewood Vineyards' Pork Wine Stew served with Riesling 
Stuffing, White Spring's Wild Rice, Apple and Dried-Cranberry Stuffing 
Turkey, Stuff Rolled Turkey Breast served with Prejean Winery's Dry or Semi-dry Riesling

Testimonials
Of course we, the Seneca Lake Wine Trail, believes this is a terrific event... But don't take just our word for it! Below are some testimonials from past attendees of this annual event:

"My husband and I have been going to the Finger Lakes wineries for about 20 years and try to visit at least three or four times a year and we have had many wonderful experiences . In fact, we have so many great memories that is it's difficult to pick a favorite, but, if we have to pick one, it would probably last December's Deck the Halls event. A large part of our enjoyment comes from being able to share our love of the Lakes with people who have never been there and over the years, we've gradually added to the number of people who go with us for that particular event. Last year, there were 14 of us -- a wonderful assortment of family and friends close enough to be family. What made the weekend extra special for us, though, was the fact the our two children were able to join us. Both of them joined the military right out of high school. Between being stationed across the country and multiple overseas deployments to Korea and the Middle East, last June maked the first time in about eight years that the four of us are living in the same state and are able to do things together. To be able to share one of favorite weekends (and lots of our favorite wineries!!) with them made the trip even more special than normal. Both our son and daughter are already making plans for who they want to bring to the Deck the Halls weekend this year, so my husband and I envision our tradition of "sharing" the Lakes with our friends living on for many years! Thank you all the good times we've had.
Jeff and Sue"

"Every year we have a girls weekend for Deck the Halls. My mom, my self and two other women set out to get in as many winery visits as we can. One favorite moment was when we left Hazlitt (winery stop number two) and my mom attempted to get into a green Jeep Cherokee...which looked nothing like my silver Dodge Caravan. That moment still makes me laugh especially that it was in the beginning of the day!
Sue"

"I was at your DECEMBER DECK THE HALLS for the first time in 2008, and enjoyed it so much, that this year we are bringing a few more guest to enjoy all your great wine and the great people that are running each and every winery.  Last year we made it to 30 wineries in one day, and came home with about 50 or so bottles of wine.  This year we are going to make the three day trip.  This way we can make it to all of the wineries.  We were told by one man that we were talking to that he made it to 24 wineries in one day, so we thought that we could do more, and we did.  This year we will enjoy it much longer and take a limo and stay the weekend in your beautiful part of our country.
Helen "