How does Sauvignon Blanc from the Finger Lakes region compare to the rest of the world?

Join us Sunday, June 26 at 2pm to find out! Taste Wines from around the world with a special emphasis on what flavor components appear in the delicious Finger Lakes Sauvignon Blancs.

Tasting begins at 2pm, by reservation only. Tickets are $25.00 and includes small foods and great wines.

Salute!

One of our favorite dining events of the season is the Healthy Food For All Farm-to-Table dinner where we partner with Scott Signori, Co-Owner/Chef of Stonecat Cafe, and Remembrance Farms out of Trumansburg. Together we help raise money so that every family in our area, no matter their income, can afford to purchase a share in a local farm’s Community Supported Agriculture program.

We will be joined by the Evil City String Band for this year’s event.

WHEN: Sunday, June 19th, 2011 – 5pm Cocktail Hour; 6pm Dinner

WHERE: Remembrance Farm, Trumansburg

CHEF: Scott Signori, Stonecat Cafe

WINE: Damiani Wine Cellars

COST: $75-$150 per ticket (all inclusive)*

BUY TICKETS: Click here for Healthy Food For All website

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Come watch the sunset in Hector with a glass of sparkling wine in your hand, as we toast to great friends, great wine and great times.

We’ll be open for a free after-hours celebration on Friday, May 20 from 7-9 in honor of the release of our 2008 Sparkling, 2009 Pinot Noir, and 2009 Chardonnay. Be sure to bring a friend and stock up on these wines, available at a special price for the evening.

We’ll be serving small foods paired perfectly with these three beauties, and the patio will be open for getting your grove on.

Hope to see you out on our side of the lake!

The Wines

The 2009 Pinot Noir:

195 cases of Phil Davis Vineyard fruit, aged in oak 2 and 3 year French oak for 14 months.

The 2009 Chardonnay

200 cases of crisp apple and kiwi fruit rounded out with partial malolactic fermentation in French Oak.

The 2008 Sparkling Brut

50% Pinot Noir, 50% Chardonnay made in the methode champenoise style. 100% lively and intense goodness.

TO ALL AREA BUSINESSES:

THE ISSUE:

We are writing to you in the hopes that you will join our efforts to STOP the Liquid Petroleum Gas storage facility proposed for Watkins Glen.  We have all worked hard to build our wine and tourist industry in this beautiful area and we all know that we succeed or fail together–a rising tide raises all boats.  People come to the region to frequent many of us–wineries, restaurants, bed and breakfasts, etc..  A great part of the attraction is the pastoral beauty of vineyards, woods and lake—recently named the most beautiful lake region in the world by a prominent travel magazine.  What is being proposed will quickly and irrevocably change this area in to a much more industrial site.  In addition to the initial storage of liquid petroleum gas, the company (Inergy) wants to make this area (with the 60+ depleted salt caverns) the “natural gas storage and transportation hub” for the entire northeastern United States. Needless to say, this will be extremely detrimental to our tourism, our winery businesses, our hunting and fishing and the many other attractions of the area. 

THE PROPOSAL:

The initial proposal is to store 88.2 million gallons (2.1 million barrels) of liquid petroleum gas in 2 of the depleted salt caverns in the town of Reading, with a 14 acre brine pit on the steep western slopes of Seneca Lake only 1 mile north of Watkins Glen. Read more at: www.gasfreeseneca.com

DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS which will result from this plan:

• 14 acre brine pit to start, many more huge brine pits to follow
• Possible breaches of the brine pits into Seneca Lake during severe weather
• Possible explosions from high pressure storage of liquid petroleum
• 24/7 noise pollution from trucks, train and compressors
• Light pollution and industrial scenery with frequent gas flares
• Traffic congestion from 24/7 trucks and trains
• Pollution from idling trucks
• Eyesore from the brine pit and truck sites
• Further growth of such industrial sites as they expand to the 60+ depleted salt caverns
• Very few jobs and profits will stay in the area–most benefit will go to the company and elsewhere
• Promotion of hydro-fracking and gas storage and shipping hub

WHAT WE CAN DO:

• Come to either one of these information sessions:
  • Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 7pm, Damiani Wine Cellars
  • Wednesday May 18, 2011, 7pm, Glenora Wine Cellars
• Sign the attached petition!
• Spread the word–WINE not BRINE!

This plan is moving forward very quickly and we must intervene NOW.  We are asking that you sign our petition, and help us reach out to your family, friends and customers so that we can return thousands of signatures and express our concerns to the Schuyler County Legislature, the Reading Town Planning Board, the Department of Environmental Conservation and the company–Inergy Inc..  We need to slow the process down so that everyone involved will understand the impact this will have on our local economy and tourist industry that has been decades in making.   WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Download, sign, share and deliver. Click here for Petition.

Download, sign, share and deliver. Click here for Petition.

May is Riesling month here in the Finger Lakes, and it signifies a time when wineries on every lake explore the white wine that brings our region to a global stage. Assistant winemaker Phil Arras will lead you in a tasting class exploring styles and regions of this white beauty, as you taste through at least 6 wines from around the world.

Tasting begins at 2pm, by reservation only. Tickets are $25.00 and includes small foods and great wines.

Salute!

Carter Creek Ford – oil on canvas, 19″ x 29

Schuyler County Paintings

by John Whiting

We’re proud to announce the opening of artist John Whiting, this Friday, April 15, from 7-9.

Winner! Winner! Winner!

We had over 200 names come in via email, facebook, phone calls, text messages, twitter messages and tasting room mentions. Thank you so much for sending them in! We had many laughs reading them all and selecting our top ten. In reality we had many, many more than ten favorites.

What else can we say besides you guys are awesome?

You guys are very awesome.

Here is the top ten and the new bubbly name!:

10. Bubblyani

9. Dam Fizzy

8. Acqua Santa (Holy Water)

7. Bolle Vino  (Bubbly Wine)

6. Bolle Bella  (Lovely Bubbles)

5. Quatro Secco  (Four Dry)

4. Amore Bolle  (Love Bubbles)

3. Vino Vita  (Wine, Life)

2. BAMF  (untranslatable)

1. Bollicini  (Tiny Bubbles) Congrats to our winner! yaaaaaay! You know who you are. Enjoy your case of wine!

Thanks to everyone for entering many other great names too! Cheers and see you soon.

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Calling all creative wine drinkers!

We need your help naming our newest wine.

It’s a sparkling wine selling for under $20, comprised of 60% cayuga 15% chardonnay, 10% pinot noir and 5% pinot grigio. It will has about 1.5% residual sugar, and its fruity and bubbly and easy drinking. Its fermented in the bottle, but not aged. Think Prosecco, only that name is already taken! …and Hec-secco sounds like a Harry Potter curse gone awry.

Submit your names by March 31 for a chance to win a case of this delicious wine just in time for your summer cellar.

You can email them to info@damianiwinecellars.com, or put them on our Facebook ‘Help Damiani Name its Wine’ event page or tweet us @damianiwine. Remember, get your names into us by March 31!

(Names must be approved by the Liquor Authority)

Athena Soleil Damiani Fullbright

For more info go: The American Institute of Food and Wine