Keuka Lake Vineyards

Keuka Lake Vineyards
8882 County Route 76
Hammondsport, New York
USA 14840
Phone: (607) 868-4100
http://www.klvineyards.com/

Contact: Mel Goldman
Email: [email protected]

Keuka Lake Vineyards is a small estate winery that produces world class wine in a distinctively dry, European-style. Our estate controlled vineyards are situated on the southern slopes of Keuka Lake, the Y-shaped crooked lake, in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. We sell the majority of our grapes each year to other producers, while designating particular varieties and vineyards for our own use in the making of our limited production wines.

Keuka Lake Vineyards specializes in premium Riesling and Vignoles made in a dry, elegant style for enjoyment with good company and fine food. Because we like to experiment and love a good challenge, we also are trying our hand at producing wines with special finesse from hybrid grape varieties. We are pleased with the results and invite you to stop by our winery and taste for yourself.

Staci decided she wanted to switch careers. “While on a winery tour in the Edna Valley, I met a winemaker that had a science background very similar to my own. It was an epiphany - here I was so completely enamored with the wine industry that I was spending my weekends pouring wine and helping out at a local winery, yet it hadn’t ever occurred to me that I could be a winemaker. I never looked back.”

Staci entered the wine program at the University of California at Davis and received her Master’s degree in Viticulture and Enology. She followed with hands-on winemaking experience by working consecutive harvests at a series of highly regarded wineries across the globe: Ornellaia in Italy, Hardy’s Tintara Winery in South Australia, and Williams Selyem in Sonoma, California. Needless to say, we at KLV feel fortunate that the constant travel left Staci eager to return home in order to settle down and “learn how to make wine where Mother Nature can be a true challenge.”

Winemaker: Staci Nugent

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