“…A good place to start tasting is on Route 414 along Seneca Lake, where some of the more vaunted newer vintners are clustered in an area facetiously known as the “banana belt,” for the fine fruit it has produced since Colonial times… if you blink, you could miss the tiny shack that is Damiani Wine Cellars’ tasting room. The owners, Lou Damiani and Phil Davis, are pinot noir specialists whose smoky, sensuous wines are templates for the kind of rich reds the area can produce in the best hands….”

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