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Watkins Glen State Park
30m
Nineteen waterfalls in two miles at the foot of the lake: Glen Creek drops four hundred feet through a shale gorge, and the trail passes behind the curtains of falling water.
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Castel Grisch
30m
Hilltop estate above Watkins Glen since 1983, two hundred acres with forty under vine and a terrace that looks the full length of the lake toward Geneva.
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Lakewood Vineyards
30m
The Stamp family bought a run-down orchard here in 1951 and first pressed their own grapes in 1988; three generations, a hundred acres of vines and more than 1,600 medals since.
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Glenora Wine Cellars
30m
The first winery on Seneca Lake, founded in 1977 by four growers the year after the Farm Winery Act; five thousand cases in its first vintage, now with an inn and the Veraisons restaurant.
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Fulkerson Winery
30m
Caleb Fulkerson claimed this land in 1805 and planted his willow walking stick in a spring; the seventh generation opened the winery in 1989 and makes more than thirty wines.
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Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard
30m
Mosel-born Hermann Wiemer planted vinifera on an abandoned soybean farm above Dundee in 1976; ninety acres today, a biodynamic home vineyard and the benchmark Finger Lakes Riesling.
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Fox Run Vineyards
30m
Fifty acres of east-facing vines planted in 1984 by John Kaiser, who still manages them; winery since 1990, certified sustainable, with a cafe run by chef Brud Holland.
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Anthony Road Wine Company
30m
John and Ann Martini planted their first five acres here in 1973; four Martini siblings now run thirty acres of estate vines near Penn Yan, known for aromatic whites.
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Ravines Wine Cellars
30m
Morten Hallgren, raised on a Provence estate and trained in Montpellier, founded Ravines in 2001; bone-dry Riesling and Loire-style Cabernet Franc from limestone and shale.
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Belhurst Castle Winery
30m
A four-storey castle begun in 1888 by Carrie Harron Collins, a speakeasy and casino from 1933, and since 1992 an estate winery, inn and restaurant on the Geneva shore.
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Three Brothers Wineries and Estates
30m
Four tasting rooms on one property since 2007, from bone-dry Stony Lonesome to sweet Bagg Dare plus War Horse Brewing; the most visited craft beverage stop in the Finger Lakes.
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Boundary Breaks Vineyard
30m
Riesling and Cabernet Franc only, on the steep eastern slope above Lodi; founded by publisher Bruce Murray and botanist Diana Lyttle and ranked among America's top 101 wineries.
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Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars
30m
Mark Wagner's Greek Revival winery opened in 1992 on land four generations of Wagners have farmed; 132 estate acres and every wine made in-house.
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Wagner Vineyards
30m
Open since 1979, one of the first estate wineries of the modern Finger Lakes, with thirty-plus wines, the Wagner Valley brewery and the Ginny Lee Cafe above the eastern shore.
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Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards
30m
The Hazlitts have grown grapes here since 1852; the winery opened in 1985 and Red Cat became one of New York's best-selling wines, now run by the sixth generation.
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Red Newt Cellars
30m
Founded in 1998 by cellar master David Whiting and Cornell microbiologist Debra Whiting, with the Red Newt Bistro alongside since 1999; Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Cabernet Franc in Hector.
