Tag Archives: Finger Lakes

WORK.WINE.WORK.

Posted on November 21, 2011 by waywardwine

Work. Wine. Work. Wine. Work. Wine. The days blur my routine of tests and checks, morning and evening with my time at work. Selling and making the stuff eats my hours. But soon fermentation will stop. Soon all I will … Continue reading →

Posted in CABERNET CRISES: MY FOURTH WINE, OENOLOGICAL ODYSSEY | Tagged alcohol, Beverages, Fahrenheit, fermentation, Finger Lakes, Food, home winemaking, homemade wine, Must weight, racking, Sugar, Vidal Blanc, wine, yeast | 4 Comments

VIDAL.VINEYARD.VISIT

Posted on November 1, 2011 by waywardwine

Check your messages, your grapes might have evaporated. The night before heading to New York State’s Fingerlakes, my cell phone informs me that Fallbright grape growers sent back my seven gallons of cabernet sauvignon. The fruit was junk. Sure the … Continue reading →

Posted in CABERNET CRISES: MY FOURTH WINE, OENOLOGICAL ODYSSEY | Tagged alcohol, fall foliage, Finger Lakes, fuzzy caterpillar, Geneva, Grape, grape must, home wine, home winemaking, Keuka Lake, New York, Seneca Lake, Vidal Blanc, wine | 2 Comments

Baco Noir, Henry of Pelham Family Estate, Ontario Canada VQA 2009

Posted on August 18, 2011 by waywardwine

A week into my Quebec vacation and I’ve yet to imbibe anything Canadian. The government owned wine-opoly SAQ, as reviewed last week, leaves few reasonably priced options beyond Southern France. So that’s all I’ve bought. Sure a Côtes du Rhône … Continue reading →

Posted in Baco Noir | Tagged ADD, baco noir, Canadian wine, concord, Finger Lakes, Great Lakes, Henry of Pelham Family Estate, lake effect, Lake Ontario, Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, Pelham Henry, poutine, wine | 1 Comment

VIGNOLES.REVISITED

Posted on May 30, 2011 by waywardwine

“Although hastily done, guiding my vignoles from the Finger Lakes to finish required the daily attentions of an obsessed parent…Now dad goes on vacation, trusting he has done enough and that his kid won’t wreck the carpet again.” So hopeful. … Continue reading →

Posted in OENOLOGICAL ODYSSEY, VIGNOLES VENTURING | Tagged alcohol, bottle, Finger Lakes, Keuka Lake, New York, racking, residual sugar, riesling, Sparkling wine, Sweetness of wine, vignoles, wine, Wine tasting descriptors, yeast | 4 Comments

North Fork, Long Island, New York: June 2010

Posted on May 2, 2011 by waywardwine

The ferry dropped my wife and I onto a strip of asphalt surrounded by the Atlantic. June sun bounced off the clockwork whitecaps marching in from the horizon. The Buick rumbled into life, aimed West, and we began our wine … Continue reading →