Last Thanksgiving I took my family on a wine adventure in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
When we first decided on the trip, I wasn’t sure what to expect. In the wine stores here in the suburbs of Houston you can’t find many Finger Lakes wines and the manager at my local grocery store laughed at me when I asked if he had any New York wines. But I knew I had to go visit and check out the region for myself.
After our dates were set and I was interviewing Jacob Fairchild of Max’s Wine Dive, he told me about the passion he had seen in the Finger Lakes winemakers he had met, and I knew I was on to something.
Then I heard a National Public Radio interview with Evan Dawson talking about his book Summer in a Glass: The Coming of Age of Winemaking in the Finger Lakes
What did I find in the Finger Lakes?
I found flavors in Rieslings I never knew could be there. I found people friendly enough to invite strangers into their home for Thanksgiving dinner. I found some delicious and memorable wines that I would like to be able to buy regularly way out here in the suburbs of Houston. Oh, and yes, we found some great adventures for the whole family to enjoy, as well.
I had a feeling the Finger Lakes would be special and my trip cemented that idea.
Click back tomorrow and I’ll share the details of our adventures in the Finger Lakes with you.
If you just can’t wait until then, though, head over to MomsTravelTales, my site about family travel, where I shared about our spontaneous trip to the Jell-O museum while we were on the way to the Finger Lakes. You didn’t know there was a Jell-O museum? Yeah, me neither, until we saw the billboard…
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