August 13, 2025 Breakfast - Amity Coffee, Penn Yan, NY. Lunch - Fox Run Winery. Dinner - Kindred Spirits, Geneva, NY
It is a joy to know when you are tasting a wonderful new wine. Today it happened at Red Tail Ridge Winery.
We left the lodge at 9:00 and drove to Penn Yan, here in short succession we picked up the laundry and filled the car with gas, except we did not fill the car. We stopped at a gas station that had an attendant who filled the tank and ran our credit card for the $37.00 of gas. Suzette was so amazed she gave him a $1.00 tip.
We then drove downtown to Amity Coffee Co. and ate a real breakfast. Suzette ate avocado toast with a latte and I ordered an everything bagel with smoked salmon, caramelized onions, and cream cheese and a chai.
The smoked salmon was excellent, it had a mild cure and a real smoked flavor, so we asked where they got their smoked salmon.
The counter attendant said she thought it came from Wegman’s.
A bit after 10:00 we drove to Red Tail Ridge Winery on the west side of Lake Seneca. We tried the first wine, a German style sparkling wine named Sekt that blew us away with its quality. After a couple more we were poured a naturally fermented sparkling Riesling and were blown away again, that happened four more times. The final taste was a northern Italian grape, teroldego and it was amazing. That was when our pourer handed us a card that indicated that Red Tail Ridge is affiliated with six other wineries in the U.S. including Ridge and Frog’s Leap in California and Blenheim in Virginia. When he said “Being a member of one makes you a member of all seven,” we were sold and became members. That also got us a 30% discount on the first case and all of our tasting was free. So we put together a case with two bottles each of the six we liked.
After almost two hours of tasting we left at noon and drove a short distance to Fox Run Winery and the difference could not have been greater. Fox Run makes less expensive wine and it tasted less expensive. The good thing at Fox Run is its cafe and outdoor deck with great views of Lake Seneca. I ordered a bowl of the soup of the day, cream of garlic, with a green salad for $11.00 and flight of five wines to taste for $10.00. The soup was okay and the wines were not very exciting, so when I finished the soup we left for points north.
We stopped an Amish Weavers store and bought egg noodles, an apron for Suzette, a get well card for Amy, and a chocolate woopie pie for me.
We the to Geneva and stopped at Wegman’s Grocery. It was a beautiful high end grocery store you could buy three different types of smoked salmon and even three different caviars.
We wanted to buy the smoked salmon but we did not have refrigeration, so we settled for tortillas for tacos.
Then we drove to Muranda cheese Company out in the country southeast of Geneva where we tried 12 cheeses with a glass of Hermann Wiemer Red Blend and water. It was a heavy tasting and we were tired by the time we finished the tasting so we rested on the back porch in Rocking chairs until 4:30, when we drove back into town to go the Kindred Soirits, but stopped at Goodwill on the way where I bought a pair of shorts and two long sleeved shirts and Suzette bought floral decorated File folders.
We arrived at Kindred Spirits at the same time as Sarah and Charlie who had just returned from Seneca Falls to see the Women’s Suffrage National Monument.
Soon Billy and Elaine arrived and we ordered. Sarah and I ordered Sautéed Aji tuna with wild rice and shitake mushrooms, broccolini, and a chipotle cream sauce. It was good but not nearly as good as the pan seared Faroe Islands salmon on a horseradish dill sauce with fingerling potatoes and broccolini, which was the best dish of the meal, that Elaine and Suzette ordered.
Billy ordered fried chicken and Charlie ordered pasta with chicken.
I drank a delightful Star Apple cider made locally, Suzette and Elaine had Lustau vermouths for their cocktail and Suzette drank a glass of Sauvignon Blanc with her dinner.
After dinner Billy, Elaine, Suzette, and I drove to the Visitors’ Center where a circus barge that had traveled on the Erie Canal was performing at 7:00. After about an hour we left and drove back to the lodge. We packed, read, and I blogged.
We will go to Standing Stone Winery tomorrow and then drive to Luke’s.
House near Hurley.
We ate a lot of food today. I even ate a muffin in the morning and the chocolate woopie pie as I packed.
Bon Appetit
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