Empire State Wine Tasting

Since my guess is most of you aren't at work looking for reasons to avoid that mound of paperwork on your desk, and therefore reading this blog on Monday... I'll save the really good post for tomorrow.  Today I'll focus on the wine tasting we did in New York.  Yes, there are wineries in more places than just California!

We hit up the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail  - who knew there were multiple wine trails in New York!

When we told the wine pourers we were from California, we got the stink eye, and the question "If you're from California, why are you tasting wine here?"  I mean the fact they said "WINE" on their doorstep isn't enough reason for us?  Really?

Hosmer Winery - our first stop

It's definitely different than here, but it wasn't all bad.  We tasted at two wineries and purchased vino at both.  We even had our first Ice Wine tasting experience.

The folks at the second winery - Sheldrake Point were super helpful, and Drew was happily playing with my cell phone... he's quite the professional underage wine taster.

(for some perspective, this is the same lake where Drew was throwing rocks in from the graduation party/gathering I showed in last Friday's Post.)

When we left the second winery it was 4:50 and most of the wineries close at 5pm in the middle of the week - go figure NY wineries are open 7 days a week where most of the ones near us are Friday - Sunday. Hmmm - and the say Californians are the winos.

So we were happy to see there was more wine in the New York town of the same wine location we got married at here in California - Lodi. 

In fact when we commented at one of the wineries that we got married in Lodi - California that is - and we were interested in tasting in this Lodi, we once again got the stink eye saying "oh there is no comparison."  Meaning our Lodi was much much better... Well duh!

Unfortunately all the Lodi wineries were closed by the time we got there (15-20 minute drive and on the other wine trail).  So we were forced to find a UPS shipping center to send all of our excess luggage back home.