Wine, food, fun, and now beer featured at festival
Sip more than 500 wines – up to 600, in fact – from 80 wineries at the Finger Lakes Wine Festival at the Watkins Glen International racetrack. The festival bills itself as the largest showcase of New York state wines and will be presented Friday through Sunday by Yancey’s Fancy New York’s Artisan Cheese.
This year, the festival will add a food court, larger seating areas, more designated driver stations, more showers and a concession stand for campers. The event features wine and food from across the state, culinary classes, cooking demos, wine seminars, live entertainment and more.
The celebration kicks off Friday evening, with fireworks, wine, and togas at “Yancey’s Fancy Cheese Launch of the Lakes,” which will run from 6 to 9:30 p.m.
From 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, the festival will feature a variety of wine and food from across the state, culinary classes, cooking demos, wine seminars and live entertainment. Free wine seminars sponsored by the New York Wine & Grape Foundation, for instance, cover pairing wine with chocolate or cheese or explores Rieslings, Cayuga Wine Trail or Hudson Valley wines.
This year will mark the first year that the festival also features a Brewer’s Garden, which will provide guests the opportunity to sample ales, lagers and experimental batches from some of the top microbreweries in the region. In all, eight breweries will present about 25 beer varieties.
Tasters visiting the Brewer’s Garden will also enjoy live music, exclusive seating in the Brewer’s Garden, and a keepsake mini-pint glass. To visit the Brewer’s Garden, tasters will be charged a $5 cover for the cost of samples and entertainment. Tasters must be at least 21 years old to enter the Brewer’s Garden.
Camping on festival grounds, shuttle service to area hotels and free parking are also available. Ice, information, paramedic and security services will be available to campers the entire event weekend.
A Friday-only ticket costs $10. A one-day taster admission for Saturday or Sunday is $25, while a ticket for both of those days costs $35. One-day admission for a designated driver or someone ages 6 to 20 is $15.
A taster’s banquet at 5:30 p.m. Saturday is $60. Camping, for one vehicle and one towed vehicle, is $35.
Information/schedule/tickets: call (866) 461-7223,
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