Follow Up: First Finger Lakes Wine Tweetup

Our first Finger Lakes Wine Tweetup was a success. We had a small, hard-core group of Finger Lakes wine devotees in attendance, the day was beautiful and we were shown a great time by Sheldrake Point Vineyards‘ winemaker David Breeden, wine club manager Antoinette Di Ciaccio and staff. The Past, Present and Future Riesling vertical [...]

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First Ever TasteCamp EAST To Explore Long Island Wine Country

If you’re my friend on Facebook or read LENNDEVOURS regularly, you probably have heard about the upcoming and  first TasteCamp EAST event that has me writing this to you from Midtown Manhattan.  I came in a day early to be sure that I don’t miss any of the fun. Since getting back from the Wine [...]

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Cheers! From Melissa’s Desk

For Week of 10/6/08: This week, freelance writer Patricia Savoie featured The Finger Lakes in a seven-page spread in Sommelier Journal. The publication has carved out a niche as “the only magazine specifically targeting restaurant wine professionals. Wine retailers, importers and distributors, winemakers, and serious wine consumers will all be strong secondary markets. In fact, [...]

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Cheers! From Melissa’s Desk

What a gorgeous fall day it is out there! Week of 9/15/08: Fox Run Vineyards held a press conference to officially announce being selected as a Winery of the Year by Wine & Spirits Magazine. For a report from the conference, please see my post at Lenn Thompson’s blog LENNDEVOURS. Thanks to Philip Beckley and [...]

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