Thursday in the Finger Lakes

Writing this post took a while because we were getting really tired.   Thursday another full day, although we combined winery visiting and wine tasting with some sight-seeing.  Friday was a long day because we were visiting wineries, doing some geo-caching, and driving home.  Saturday we had to prep and then do the wine presentation at Mom's House Wine Dinner Celebration, and Sunday we were organizing our wine purchases, deciding what wines to use for our Wines of the Finger Lakes class this Thursday, and then going to an AWS wine tasting in the afternoon.

Days 5 (Thursday) in the Finger Lakes

We started Thursday by driving to the Western Shore of Cayuga and South to Taughannock Falls State Park where we walked the dogs and enjoyed the dramatic scenery of the falls, the cliffs, the gorge, and the trail that follows the stream that flows from the base of the falls.  This photo is from the top. The falls drop over 200 feet to the pool below.

We also found two geo-caches nearby, including one that took us on the old Black Diamond railroad bed and to another dramatic view of another smaller waterfalls and gorge.  Then, around noon we headed North to wineries and lunch.  We began wine tasting at Lucas, then went on to Sheldrake Point, and then back to Americana for lunch. 

The view from Lamoreaux Landing

We had a very nice lunch along with a bottle of wine, bought some wonderful fudge, and then headed back to the Eastern shore of Seneca where we visited Lamoreaux Landing, Wagner, and finally Hazlitt.  Wagner produces wine and beer, and at that point we were tiring of wine (hard to believe) so we did a beer tasting instead of a wine tasting.  On our way out one of the staff talked with us and after learning we were fans of dry red wines, offered us tastes of their Cabernet Franc. It was one of the best reds we tasted so far, so we bought a bottle.

We ended another long day with dinner in our room and a bottle of Merlot from Fox Run (falling asleep off and on watching the Phillies).