Comments on: Wine Blogging Wednesday 61: At the source: Fulkerson Winery

By: Spank Maid

Spank Maid — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:31:01 +0000

emm. interesting ))

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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:30:35 +0000

[...] to taste. In case you don’t know, I do the bulk of my buying and tasting of local wines in the tasting room, where I can talk to employees and taste all the wines I want. Some of these wineries are an hour, [...]

By: Pamela

Pamela — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:51:48 +0000

I’ve been curious about the characteristics of New York’s Lemberger, Vincent and Dornfelder varieties. Good write-up and thanks for the insight. ~Pamela

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Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:49:14 +0000

[...] Wine Blogging Wednesday 61: At the source: Fulkerson Winery « Ithacork ithacork.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/wine-blogging-wednesday-61-at-the-source-fulkerson-winery – view page – cached This month’s Wine Blogging Wednesday theme, “At the source” is a bit lost on those of us lucky enough to live in a world-class wine region and visit wineries regularly, but here we go anyway. The task here is to visit and taste at a local winery. Well, don’t mind if i do! — From the page [...]

By: Tom Mansell

Tom Mansell — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:35:41 +0000

Most of them are, but it’s the one behind the camera that you have to watch out for.

By: Lenn Thompson

Lenn Thompson — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:38:45 +0000

By the way Tom…who said any of those bloggers are respectable?

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:29:38 +0000

Tom

Thanks for the link.

Another difference between tasting room and home is barometric pressure.

By: Tom Mansell

Tom Mansell — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:24:49 +0000

Evan: Full disclosure: The lemberger was on sale (2006, probably trying to get rid of it) and the other 6 i bought to make up a 1/2 case discount. I knew I was in for a few after I liked the first 3 in a row I tasted….

Lenn: I have to admit, I bought the Vincent not because I was intrigued or seduced by the sample that I had, but because I’ve been meaning to try some red varietal hybrids lately. I think I have seen varietals of DeChaunac, Vincent, Leon Millot, Noiret, Frontenac, Foch, Chancellor, Chambourcin, and of course Baco. I want to get to know these red workhorses better individually, and this Vincent is a good start. Basically, I was going to buy it anyway, just to give it a shot at home.

Re: red vinifera, I hate when people say yeah FLX wines are ok, except the reds. Many people make terrible reds, it’s true, but some are very good and those producers who really seem to understand red winemaking (and grapegrowing!!!!) well make some excellent ones.

By: Lenn Thompson

Lenn Thompson — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:09:32 +0000

Tom: Thanks for joining in the fun of WBW this time around, and with a local winery.

I love that you tasted a wine (07 Vincent) because you wanted to give it another shot. I’m guessing that’s pretty rare in the tasting room setting. Must be the scientist in you, right?

Is it me, or does the Finger Lakes region have a few “great red hopes” these days? Lemberger/Blaufrankisch, cab franc and pinot (in the eyes of a few anyway). Maybe things aren’t so bad for the region on the red wine front?

By: Evan Dawson

Evan Dawson — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:39:34 +0000

Tom – As I recently wrote on the NYCR, my experience mirrors yours with regards to the tasting room experience at Fulkerson. Knowledgeable and friendly staff, gorgeous room, interesting range of wines. You bought quite a haul; I’ll let you grab the tab in our next get-together, Stipend Man.

I also enjoyed the Vignoles and bought a bottle. And like you, I was a bit let down by the Riesling. Their Riesling is the definition of Dry, but to me it was unbalanced and lacked depth.

Fulkerson is a hard-working and friendly operation and this was a nice report.