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Today the Ravines team harvested Chardonnay at the White Springs vineyard in Geneva, NY. Winemaker Morten Hallgren doesn’t base his harvest schedule on numbers, as some other winemakers do.  (For example, some winemakers will look at brix, which is the amount of sugars in the juice.)  Morten makes his decisions on…(Read More)

Wine Spectator recently released the Top 100 Wines of 2013, a prestigious list of the world’s most provocative wines. Ravines Wine Cellars’ 2012 Dry Riesling is ranked 33rd on the list, an impressive accolade for the winery as well as the Finger Lakes Wine Industry as a whole. James Molesworth rated the 2012…(Read More)

Last week we had the pleasure of hosting James Molesworth, Senior Editor for Wine Spectator and author of wine blog Stirring the Lees, at our new production facility and tasting room.  On previous trips to the Finger Lakes, James had visited us at our tasting room on Keuka Lake, but this…(Read More)

Morten in the vineyard

Eric Asimov visited Ravines Wine Cellars during the 2011 Harvest season:”I was a bit starstruck when he came to the tasting room because I have appreciated his work for years, but he is a super-nice down to earth man,” reflects Lisa Hallgren. “He said he was ‘blown away’ when he first tried our…(Read More)

view of Keuka Lake

Cool-climate viticulture and the Finger Lakes. This is only the first of what I hope to be many blog entries pertaining to cool-climate viticulture and the role the Finger Lakes could play in the American wine market. To most wine drinkers, familiar with both European and American wine regions, there is an inescapable…(Read More)

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