July 2009 June 19-21 NYS Food and Wine Festival in Clayton. County Proclamation Signing Event Yellow Barn, Otter Creek, Coyote Moon, and Thousand Islands Wineries will be open throughout the month for tours, wine tasting and wine sales. Every Saturday In July Slushee Saturdays at Otter Creek Winery Every Saturday in July 9 to 10am The Home Grown Show on 790 WTNY AM will feature industry interviews and giveaway gift certificates for grapevines and purchases at the wineries. The Home Grown Show is New York’s premiere agricultural talk show bringing you interesting information about agriculture in a fun and informative format. Move over political talk show junkies, the ag talkers are taking over! Visit www.790wtny.com for more info. July 8 Introduction to Grape Growing Seminar. 6 to 8pm. Otter Creek Winery Learn how to grow grape vines at home from the experts at Otter Creek Winery. Call Kyle Hafemann at (315) 642-0622 to register or for more information. Visit their website at www.ottercreekwinery.com July 11 Birthday Bash at Thousand Islands Winery The Thousand Islands Winery will be 6 years old so come celebrate with them and enjoy some award winning wine! There will be an old fashioned Pig-Roast and live entertainment by a popular local classic rock band called R-19 from 2 - 6 PM. Fun for the entire family, hayrides, food, local crafters & vendors, lots of delicious wine, and beer by the glass. Rain or Shine. For more information call (315) 482-9306 or visit www.thousandislandswinery.com
July 12 Wine Trail Jam at the Clayton Opera House July 12, 2009 Sunday Series at the Clayton Opera House, Featuring the Grapeful Redneck Wine Trail Band. All proceeds at the door go to a local Charity and the 1000 Island Seaway Wine Trail will be doing tastings and selling wine while the band is playing. It will be relaxed and fun! For information they can contact Kristina Randazzo with Coyote Moon Vineyards at Kristina@coyotemoonvineyards.com or call (315) 686 5600. July 18 Grand Opening of Coyote Moon Winery Coyote Moon Vineyard invites everyone to participate in their grand opening on Saturday July 18 from 10am to 8pm. There’ll be entertainment, food and refreshments. Vineyard and winery tours will be available all day. At 1:30pm we’ll have our official ribbon cutting ceremony with winery and vineyard staff and local officials. For more information, please call the winery at (315) 686-5600 or Kristina at (703) 483-5687. You can also email Kristina at Kristina@coyotemoonvineyards.com. Visit www.coyotemoonvineyards.com July 22 Introduction to Grape Growing Seminar at Coyote Moon Winery. 6 to 8pm Learn how to grow grape vines at home from the experts at Coyote Moon Vineyards. Call Phil Randazzo at (315) 686-5600 to register or for more information. Visit their website at www.coyotemoonvineyards.com July 25 Tour a Vineyard Day 11am to 2pm Seaway Coldhardy Grapevine Nursery and Vineyard and other vineyards. Seaway Coldhardy Grapevines and Vineyard is proud to be the first Northern New York grapevine nursery, now in our sixth year of operation, and a licensed propagator of the outstanding new wine grapes(Marquette, Frontenac Gris, Frontenac, and Lacrescent) that were developed by the University of Minnesota's coldhardy wine grape breeding program. Seaway Coldhardy Grapevines welcomes the public to take full advantage of this learning opportunity as we tour our collection of both university and private selections with a panel of local grape growers. We will learn and explore the many topics associated with establishing a vineyard in our Northern environment ranging from trellising and vineyard supply considerations to coldhardy vine cultivar selections. There will also be a grapevine sale of wine and table grape varieties fit for our region and a demonstration on a state of the art in row Vine cultivator. Refreshments will be available. For more information, contact Duane Smith at (315) 629-8728 or visit www.seawaycoldhardygrapes.com.
For more information on any of these events, please call Coyote Moon Vineyard and Winery – (315) 686-5600, Otter Creek Winery - (315) 642-0622, Thousand Islands Winery – (315) 482-9306, Yellow Barn Winery - (315) 782-1824, Seaway Coldhardy Grapevine and Nursery – (315) 629-8728. |
