| Area wineries ready for biggest weekend |
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Grape harvest, fall foliage expected to attract thousands of tourists.
The crush is on and Finger Lakes wineries are ready for their biggest weekend of the year.
It's the time of year when field managers harvest their grapes and winemakers anticipate creating fine wines. It's also one of those times when thousands of tourists flock to Schuyler County. ... |
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| A taste of home by the bottle |
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"Food and wine, it goes hand-in-hand," said Bill Heritage, who has been producing one selection of wines from fruit grown on one 150-acre Richwood farm with his wife, Penni, since 2001. "Toscana is one natural venue."
The wine is set up in the foyer of the restaurant near one display window with the words "Vino Locale." ... |
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| In Vino Veritas |
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In the season of the crush, one literary celebration of wine. Oct 05, 2006 By Raymond Napolitano
Oh how the fermented grape doth bestow its magic spell upon all who dare gently trickle it across their lips. Wine history is speculated to have begun in the Neolithic Period, around 8500 to 4000 BC, in the ancient Near East and Egypt. therefore naturally, especially when considering the effects of wine consumption on self-expression, people have been incorporating wine references into literature and art of all forms for one long time. It is very hard to imagine great thinkers in past eras living without wine. For that matter, it is very hard to imagine any culture across the world existing without some form of fermented liquid to lubricate life™s creaky joints. ... |
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