The Taylor Wine Company was founded in Hammondsport in the late 1800s and grew into one of the largest wine producers in the eastern United States before Coca-Cola acquired it in 1977. Walter S. Taylor, grandson of the founder, was expelled from the family company before the sale for advocating honest labeling of hybrid wines. He started Bully Hill on the original Taylor family land, and when Coca-Cola sued him for using the Taylor name, he blacked out the name on every bottle in his inventory and wrote “they got my name and my heritage but they didn’t get my goat” — illustrated with a goat. The goat label has been the winery’s symbol ever since. The tasting room and art gallery occupy the original Taylor farmstead above Keuka. The Ben Taylor restaurant serves lunch seasonally.















