Finger Lakes Wine Trail
Last month the Hubster and I visited the Finger Lakes Wine Country in New York. The Finger Lakes are comprised of eleven different lakes, looking like fingers, geographically speaking. Artistic sculpture of the 11 Finger Lakes, found at Captain's Cafe in Geneva, NY. Out of the eleven different lakes, there are seven different lake wine trails. Out of these seven, the Seneca Lake Wine Trail, the Canadaiga Lake Wine Trail, The Cayuga Lake Wine Trail, and the Keuka Lake Wine Trail are the most popular. We concentrated primarily on the Seneca Lake Wine Trail because it had the most wineries. With around 110 wineries in the entire Finger Lakes region, there is just so much one mature Mid-Western couple could do. How did the Finger Lakes Wine Country get started? This is how it was explained to me by one of the vineyards; between 1860-1880, many wineries came and went around Keuka Lake. However, by 1880, the Taylor Wine Company became successful in the region. The Taylors so