Fingerlakes, NY

Seems like so long ago the first of October. Six of us decided to take a long weekend and head to lake Seneca in New York. We stayed at the north end of the lake in the town of Geneva at Belhurst Castle. www.belhurst.com When you arrive, the Hotel / Castle is breathtaking with the trees changing colors and the lake in the background. The hotel is equipped with a large main dining room that is dark wood, a large lounge with a sunken bar that looks out on the lake with a huge fire place that invites you to sit all day and sip wines from the Belhurst winery. Step out their front door and into another door and you enter their gift shop and tasting room. We sampled and purchased several bottles of the Belhurst Merlot.

We spent two rather full days on Lake Seneca visiting fourteen wineries. Yes that was seven per day and involved a lot of spitting. In some of my following posts I will talk about specific wineries. There are many tasty wines from this area and they are not all Reislings either.