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Weekly Finger Lakes Craft Beverage & News Roundup 10/28/2022

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WEEKLY FINGER LAKES CRAFT BEVERAGE & NEWS ROUNDUP 10/28/2022 Finger Lakes Craft Beverage, Arts, Food, Travel, & Tourism News Three Heads Brewing partners with Dibella's Subs to make a new Chocolate Chip Cookie Stout beer, using Dibella's chocolate chip cookies FLX Weekly discusses the November Holiday Shopping Spree event on the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail In honor of their 60th Anniversary, Dr. Frank Winery releases 5 new wines and a new documentary video Edible Finger Lakes interviews Shawn Kime, winemaker at Thirsty Owl Winery Wine Whoopee visits Red Tail Ridge Winery and Heart and Hands Winery Cornell Agritech grad student works on ways to improve wine flavors The Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble will perform works from Chopin and Schumann at Red Newt Winery this Sun. Oct. 30th Castel Grisch Winery presents Happy Hallowine event this Sat. Oct. 29th Reinvention...

Weekly Finger Lakes Craft Beverage & News Roundup 10/21/2022

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WEEKLY FINGER LAKES CRAFT BEVERAGE & NEWS ROUNDUP 10/21/2022 Finger Lakes Craft Beverage, Arts, Food, Travel, & Tourism News This week marks the 2nd Anniversary of the Weekly Finger Lakes Craft Beverage & News Roundup and I want to Thank all of the readers for all of your support and kind words! I started the original Finger Lakes Weekend Wino website back in 2005, visiting dozens of Finger Lakes wineries every year and tasting over 500 Finger Lakes wines per year and giving my thoughts on the best of those. But when a Winery opportunity came along in 2009, I had no time to continue the pace of postings for that website. After we sold that Winery, then the pandemic hit, and I felt that there was a need for a media source to pull together a roundup of what was happening on a weekly basis in the Finger Lakes in the areas of Craft Beverages, Arts, Travel, and Tourism news. Now 2 years later, with thousands of regular readers, I am happy to be able to present ...

Weekly Finger Lakes Craft Beverage & News Roundup 10/14/2022

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WEEKLY FINGER LAKES CRAFT BEVERAGE & NEWS ROUNDUP 10/14/2022 Finger Lakes Craft Beverage, Arts, Food, Travel, & Tourism News Sayre Fulkerson, owner of Fulkerson Winery, discusses how new Ukrainian immigrants traveled from South Carolina to the Finger Lakes to buy wine juice to keep their Ukrainian winemaking heritage alive in their new home Three Brothers Winery discusses the reopening of the fire-damaged Bagg Dare tasting room, insurance battles, and a new policy to limit buses and limos The Wall Street Journal's Lettie Teague makes new wine discoveries in the Finger Lakes Hermann Wiemer Winery and Ravines Winery make Wine and Spirits Magazine's Top 100 Wineries of 2022 list 2 wines from Hosmer Winery make Wine & Spirits Magazine's list of Top 100 Best Buys of 2022 Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association partners with Finger Lakes breweries, who will make new beers with Seneca Lake water as...

Weekly Finger Lakes Craft Beverage & News Roundup 10/7/2022

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WEEKLY FINGER LAKES CRAFT BEVERAGE & NEWS ROUNDUP 10/7/2022 Finger Lakes Craft Beverage, Arts, Food, Travel, & Tourism News This Week In Wine Country visits Finger Lakes Distilling And Finger Lakes Distilling presents their Highland Harvest Festival this Sun., Oct. 9th Hazlitt Winery winemaker Tim Benedict is presented the Governors Cup for the New York Wine Classic The 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Ingle Vineyard at Heron Hill Winery is this Sunday, Oct. 9th Edible Finger Lakes interviews Six Eighty Cellars winemaker Ian Barry Finger Lakes winemaker Nathan Kendall and sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier are creating a buzz with their native Pet Nat wines at their Chepika Wine project The Best of Ithaca Awards honor Six Mile Creek Winery and South Hill Cidery The Whiskey Wash highlights the new Pumpkin Pie Whiskey from Iron Smoke Distillery Wine Enthusiast magazine highligh...