fwc@mtuxo.UUCP (09/16/86)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I have friends coming down from Vancouver and I would like to bring them on a winery tour. I need information on your experiences with these tours and their schedules. The Wineries can be in New York, New Jersey, or Penn. (?). The schedule trip will take place the first weekend in October. All comments and experiences are appreciated. Please send them to mtuxo!fwc. -- **************************************** * Frank "KONG" Chang * * AT&T-IS at LINCROFT, N.J. * * mtuxo!fwc * **************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everything written above are representative of my opinion only. If you do not understand it, do not worry because I do not understand it myself neither. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
lfl@lzaz.UUCP (L.F.LARSEN) (09/22/86)
In article <1983@mtuxo.UUCP>, fwc@mtuxo.UUCP (f.chang) writes: > I have friends coming down from Vancouver and I would like > to bring them on a winery tour. I need information on > your experiences with these tours and their schedules. The > Wineries can be in New York, New Jersey, or Penn. I spent a week in the Finger Lakes and toured several wineries. There are lots of wineries up there. Far too many to visit in one week (even of deicated tasting). If you and your friends are primarily interested in touring a couple of wineries, the tours at Wagner Vineyards and Bully Hill vineyards are very good. Wagner has a wonderful restaurant on a deck overlooking the lake which serves wines by the glass. It also has some very good wines. I tried their Chardonnay at a tasting in NYC and decided to visit the winery. They also have an amazingly good (for the price) red table wine ~$2/bottle with a very Burgundy-like nose and good fruit, pleasant and soft on the palate. The tour went through the entire winemaking process and was quite well-done. The tour ends in the tasting room. Too many of their wines are too sweet for my taste, but they have other drier wines and they will pour them for you if you ask. Bully Hill is the winery started by Walter S. Taylor when he left Taylor (yes THAT Taylor) Wines. The winery is full of interesting items and the tour includes the history of Walter's fight with Coca- Cola (after they bought Taylor) over the use of his family name. Walter is quite a character - actually I guess folk-hero is a more apt description now. He makes some good wines though. (And some that I don't car for. The tour ends in the tasting room. The wines range from overly sweet to so dry and tannic that your cheeks meet each other while your mouth is puckering. There is probably something for almost every taste here. There is a book listing Finger Lakes wineries, if you're interested I can look up the essential information for you. There is also a book listing wineries across the country. I picked up both of these books in the Wagner Vineyards gift shop. Before I close, I'd like to make a quick plug for High Tor Winery in New City, NY. It is a very small operation, which runs small informal tours, serves up some very good wines and has an excellent restaurant attached to it. October might too early for the roast duck, but the rest of the menu is also very good. Lance F. Larsen ...!ihnp4!lzut!lfl "In vino Veritas!"
ashcroft@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (09/23/86)
One place you might want to go to is Turbacks Restaurant just outside of Ithaca NY. They specialize in NY Wines and have a Nitrogen system so that they can sell wine by the glass. (The system forces nitrogen into an opened bottle of wine, thus preventing the wine from spoiling after it has been opened). It is supposed to be pretty good. (I wouldn't know - I don't drink).