Ravinous Club Harvest 2024 Newsletter
An update on how harvest is looking, the benefits of bottle aging prior to release and some new vintages Click the image above to check out this seasons recipes, wines, and information from the Chef and the Winemaker
Wine & Spirits Selects Ravines as Top 100 Winery in the World in 2022
For a third time, Ravines has been named a Top 100 Winery of the Year by Wine & Spirits magazine. The publication describes the award as, “… a diverse collection of producers from around the globe, determined by the magazine’s exclusive blind-tasting process and celebrated for their exceptional wines.” The Top 100 Wineries will be featured in […]
Long-awaited Release of 2008 “Flor” Wine
On Sunday, January 27th we released an 11 year aged wine, Flor, with an extravagant wine dinner in our cellar room. Master Sommelier and renowned chef, Christopher Bates, created the menu and prepared dishes to pair with Flor and other Ravines wines. As a study and big proponent of fortified and oxidized wines, he gave guests a […]
New Release: Blanc de Blanc 2008
We are excited to announce the release of our new sparkling wine, a 2008 Blanc de Blanc. This wine is made with 100% Chardonnay grapes from our Argetsinger vineyard, a steep sloped vineyard on the East side of Seneca Lake. One of the oldest vineyards in the Finger Lakes, the grapes grown in its limestone […]
Wine & Spirits Magazine: Ravines in Top 100 Wineries
Each year, Wine & Spirits Magazine chooses 100 wineries from around the world as hallmarks of the industry. Ravines Wine Cellars was selected for producing a variety of high quality wines. Land Baron: Since moving to New York’s Finger Lakes in 1999, Denmark-born Morten Hallgren and his wife, Lisa, have been slowly putting together a Riesling-focused […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]