Category — Lakeland Winery News

The results are in from this year’s NYS Fair Home Wine Making Competition. Of 283 entries, 25 entries were from juice/concentrate, like the kind you make at Lakeland Winery. Nearly ALL the Concentrate wine won a medal! A DOUBLE GOLD went to Chocolate Raspberry Port (which is available for you to make in November) and the Estate Cabernet Sauvignon. GOLD went to Strawberry Riesling; Peach Apricot Chardonnay, and Orange Blossom Muscat. SILVER went to Sangiovese; Montepulciano; Cabernet Sauvignon; Grenache Mourvedre; Stag’s Leap Merlot, and Green Apple Riesling. BRONZE went to Rioja; Shiraz; Merlot; Gewurztraminer; Three berry Pinot Grigio, and Tempranillo Cabernet Sauvignon.

Thank you to those who made their wine at Lakeland Winery and submitted it for a chance to win. I’m sure your efforts were noticed by the judges, who some were surprised that your wines would taste so good.

As the organizer for this years competition, I am planning to also be part of next years event at the State Fair. I hope you will join me and learn what’s involved in judging wines. Get a close up, personal view of how judging is done.

These are the final comprehensive results for your viewing: 2008-home-wine-competition

The results are in! I had a blast judging The New York State Fair Home Winemaking Competition and can’t wait for the next one. A special thanks to all those who participated.

Click the button on the right side to view full screen:

We’re in the process of putting together a mission statement that will outline how the winery will continue to provide exceptional winemaking services and wine products in the years to come.

One principle we stand for is involvement equals commitment. Because our customers are so important to us, we want to involve everyone in the process of writing Lakeland Winery’s mission statement.

So, we have three simple questions that we’d love for you to respond to using the comments form below. It would be great to see some discussion on this! You can contact me directly if you feel more comfortable:

1. What should Lakeland Winery continue doing in the future?
2. What should Lakeland Winery stop doing in the future?
3. What should Lakeland Winery start doing in the future?

As soon as we can put a Mission Statement draft together, we’ll post it here to my Wine Blog.

—Andy

Here’s a quick preview of Step 1 of our upcoming How to Make Wine Video series by yours truly (they’ll all be available online for free):

Interested in purchasing Lakeland Winery wines by the bottle online? Stay tuned….our online wine store is opening soon…

Andy filtering wine.

We are in the middle of putting together a few ‘How to Make Wine’ winemaking videos and had a videographer over on Saturday to film each step in the winemaking process. We had a lot of fun with the first day of filming, so keep an eye out for the videos in the next few weeks!

Andy mixing grape juice and adding yeast.

Winexpert is proud to announce its newest kit and best kit ever!

While keeping with our reputation for producing the industry’s highest standard for wine kits, we have decided to take on the cutting edge of environmentally appropriate technology both by reducing the carbon footprint of winemakers and improving the environment, making the world’s first truly ‘green’ wine: The Chateau Selection Series Sprirulina Algae Negative Carbon Wine Kit!

Spirulina is a blue-green algae. It is a simple, one-celled form of algae that thrives in warm, alkaline fresh-water bodies. The name “spirulina” is derived from the Latin word for “helix” or “spiral”; denoting the physical configuration of the organism when it forms swirling, microscopic strands.

Spirulina is the “food of the future” because of its amazing metabolic system, based on photosynthesis, a process of direct food energy production utilizing sunlight and chlorophyll, which is typical of plant life forms. This means that during fermentation the kit must receive direct sunlight—in fact, exposure to sunlight during storage and ageing will cause the wine kit to increase in alcohol! And it does this by directly absorbing the carbon dioxide generated by fermentation! Now the only smell your family will complain about will be pure, sweet fresh air coming from your fermentation room!

And that’s not all! Selection Series Sprirulina Algae Negative Carbon Wine Kit will soak up all of the CO2 generated by other fermentations! Make all the wine you want: it’ll only make your Selection Series Sprirulina Algae Negative Carbon Wine Kit produce better wine, faster! Algae to the people!

During the packaging process our Selection Series Sprirulina Algae Negative Carbon Wine Kit is subject to Pasteurizing at 70 degrees Centigrade (160 degrees F). In this intense heat, the naturally blue-green algae turns a frosted white and develops a sweet flavor as its 71 percent protein structure is transformed into polysaccharide sugars by the heat—more polysaccharides mean more flavor!

As a bonus, each Selection Series Sprirulina Algae Negative Carbon Wine Kit purchased April 1, 2008 will come with two cases of recycled cardboard Tetra-Pak™ ‘Friendlybottles’. Made from 100% recycled shoe boxes and the wax from hand-raised Venezualan Yoga Bees™, these containers occupy 1/10th the volume of regular wine bottles and carry the Friendly Hippie seal of approval!

Contact Lakeland Winery today and remember, Save the Planet: Use Your Liver!

We’re building our news room piece by piece and just put up video of Andy featuring Lakeland Winery wines on WCNY’s Food for Thought with George Kilpatrick and WSYR’s Bridge Street with Rick and Julie.

You can head over to our news room, or just watch below:

Lakeland Winery on Bridge Street with Rick and Julie

Lakeland Winery on WCNY’s Food for Thought with George Kilpatrick

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