Late Harvest Riesling at Ravines
Late Harvest wines are produced by leaving the grapes on the vine one to two months longer than normal, which allows the grapes to become dehydrated and thus sweeter due to higher concentrations of sugar. Workers covered the rows of grapes with netting to prevent the birds, deer and other critters from eating the grapes […]
Ravinous Kitchen Selected As One Of America’s Best Winery Restaurants By Food & Wine
Food & Wine magazine has selected The Ravinous Kitchen as one of America’s Best Winery Restaurants. Carey Jones touts The Ravinous Kitchen as one of “the best in the nation, [featuring] the best wines of their respective vineyards, excellent cuisine, and often-idyllic settings”, and points “four-course meals to pair with the vineyard’s own wines” […]
The Chef and the Winemaker series – Meritage
Last Sunday, January 15, Ravines kicked off its “Chef and Winemaker” series with a vertical tasting of 5 vintages of Ravines Meritage. Attendees had a chance to do a side-by-side tasting of the 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 vintages, and winemaker Morten Hallgren surprised everyone by bringing a couple of bottles of the 2006 vintage […]
Wine Spectator selects Ravines 2014 Riesling for Top 100
In its December 31, 2016 issue, Wine Spectator selected Ravines Wine Cellars’ 2014 Dry Riesling as one of the Top 100 Wines in the world. This is the 4th time a Ravines wine has been selected to be on this prestigious list, following our 2012 Argetsinger Vineyard Dry Riesling, 2012 Dry Riesling, and 2009 Dry […]
New York Times Recommends Ravines for Thanksgiving
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 New York Times wine columnist Eric Asimov’s annual Thanksgiving wine panel column featured 10 wines, including Ravines’ 2013 Pinot Noir. Ravines 2013 Pinot Noir The pinot noir reminded me … of a trousseau from the Jura…pale-colored, subtle and reticent on its own… fresh, herbal flavors come alive with food. This Pinot […]
New Vineyard Planting Begins
A new 10 acre vineyard is being constructed abreast of the 42 acres at Ravines’ White Springs Vineyard. Apart of the Niagara Escarpment Extension, the soil composition at White Springs consists of calareous limestone under honeyoye loam. The site has a substantial slope facing Seneca Lake, offering both great drainage and protection from harsh winter […]
Ravines Dry Riesling, Argetsinger Vineyard makes Wine Spectator’s Top 100 List
Today Wine Spectator’s prestigious Top 100 list was released for 2015 and Ravines 2012 Dry Riesling, a single vineyard Riesling from the amazing Argetsinger Vineyard, was on the list. This is the third time in the past five years that a Ravines Dry Riesling has made the list. Ravines Oenologist/Winemaker Morten Hallgren has always produced […]
New vines at our Keuka Vineyard
If you have visited our Keuka Lake tasting room recently, you might have noticed some activity on the slopes behind the building. We cleared the slope and have planted over 6,000 Riesling and Chardonnay vines on 5.5 acres overlooking the lake. Our vineyard team used GPS and laser technology to plant the vines precisely in […]
Ravines’ Library Wines
If you’ve visited one of our tasting rooms, it’s likely that you have seen the “Library List” near the register. This is a list of older vintages of some of our wines that are available for purchase. We hold back a few cases of each release so that our customers can buy some of these […]
Disgorging Sparkling Brut
This week, winemaker Morten Hallgren disgorged more Sparkling Brut — almost a decade after it was bottled. Disgorging is the process whereby the yeasts in each bottle are removed. In the classic method used by Ravines, the bottles have been riddled to get the yeast and other sediments into the bottles’ necks; once the riddling process is […]