Sweedler and Thayer Preserves

A Cayuga Lake brewery and restaurant in King Ferry with a deck overlooking the water, hay fields, and vineyards, plus outposts in Rochester and Syracuse.

Estate lakeside tasting room with cabins on the property

A founding member, a gothic barn, and The Copper Oven pizza

70-acre sustainable estate on the western shore

Lucas Vineyards is a winery located in Interlaken, Seneca County, featured on the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail.

Gold Coast limestone soils, dock parking available

Walk-in and boat-accessible, with an on-site bistro

The winery that sold its grapes to other Finger Lakes producers for 19 years before deciding to bottle the Gold Medal Riesling itself.

The Martini family's Penn Yan operation since 1989, where the Riesling and Gewurztraminer program is serious enough that reservations are strongly encouraged and group size caps at six.

A Geneva west-shore producer with nearly 40 years of estate growing behind it and a portfolio that runs from dry vinifera to late harvest.

A west-shore winery on a quiet road above Himrod that earns the detour most Route 14 visitors never take.

Glenora Wine Cellars offers a picturesque venue for weddings with vineyard views, luxurious accommodations, and exceptional service.

A west shore Seneca Lake farm with roots going back to 1805, where seventh-generation winemaker Sayre Fulkerson also supplies grape juice to home winemakers across the country.

A dry-vinifera operation on the east shore where the winemaking steps aside and the Seneca Lake AVA does the work.

Three generations of Stamps have been farming the west side of Seneca Lake since 1952, opening the winery in 1989 and growing it to 80 acres without leaving the family.