Blue Chair Bay Premium Run created by multi-pltinum Singer-Songwriter Kenny Chesney is one of the latest spirits being produced locally in Rochester,in collaboration, whereas the rum is distilled in Barbados is shipped to be blended, then bottled by LiDestri Foods.

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The number of Craft Beer producers has more than double over the past three years in New York.  THe Rochester Region has been experiencing what can only be called a local boom as new breweries operations seem to be popping up everywhere.  By comparison, this is still n...

When yo go to your liquor store, are you buying the wine you think you're buying?

CBS This Morning news reported on an extensive investigation into a 'bait and switch' tactic where the wine store chains have been routinely and over a course of years been selling wine, b...

Finger Lakes Community College began a concentration in Viticulture and Enology (Winemaking) with its first students producing wine with their first vintage from the harvest of 2010.  Sharing laboratory and classroom space, Associate Professor Paul Brock began to assem...

I entered into a conversation with an individual from a large national wine club, concerning the inability to load Burgundy bottles into their commercially produced wine rack.  The individual questioned the winemaker by announcing his displeasure with their bottle choi...

"what's in a name?  That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." - William Shakepeare (Romeo and Juliet)

As we border on the edge of summer, all thoughts of the past cold spring and a fading notion of hearty meals paired with red wines disappear.

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"Local wine people - both inside and out of the industry proper - long lamented how few local restaurants support and offer local wines.  Short of visiting every restaurant and asking to see their wine list, it is hard to know precisely who is listing  local wines and...

See - Photograph - Purchase is becoming a preferred method to buy nearly everything the American Consumers watns, requiring the least amount of time and effort.  The brick and mortar concept versus the convenience of shopping at home has been a very well documented tre...

"Terroir remainss one of the most intriguing and perplexing challenges in the world of wine today, largely because what Terroir ecompasses is not universally understoood or accepted.  Nonetheless, the concept has become woven into the thinking and commentary of nearly...

"All grapes have an affection for gravel, slate or stony soils as all the preferred acres are so infertile and stony that a corn farmer would not even take them as a gift," notes Jeff Cox in his book From Vine to Wine - A complete Guide to Growing Grapes where he discu...