Finger lake Wine Tours/tasting

[larrychandler]

New York wines are hard to get even in New York City because it is such a competitive and global market that any new area has trouble getting a foothold. And the Finger Lakes are especially troublesome because their best variety is Riesling which people think is too sweet, even though the dry versions from the Finger Lakes (esp. Dr. Frank, Weimer, Standing Stone, Fox Run) are glorious.

There is a new store in New York City that sells NY state wine exclusively. It's called Vintage NY and is located in Soho on Broome St., but other stores are starting to carry them.

The wineries think that because they can sell their output mostly at the winery door and via mail order they don't need to market their wines to other states, but I think this is a shortsighted view.

I work in a store in Midtown that sells a few Long Island wines, and also some wine from Virginia and Pennsylvania, but no Finger Lakes wines, at least not yet. We'll see.