Finger Lakes Canandaigua Lake, New York
Canandaigua Lake wine trail map
Canandaigua is the Finger Lake whose wine grows away from the water. The vines went into the Naples valley south of the lake in 1844 and up the Bristol hills to the west, and that is where the tasting rooms still are, from a Main Street cellar in the city to the old Widmer's plant above Naples where Red Cat is now made. Seven wineries appear in this guide, pouring Traminette and Catawba beside dry Riesling and Grüner Veltliner, with a dozen more within about 40 minutes on Keuka Lake, around Geneva and at Mendon. Here is what they make, why the valley tastes as it does, and how to shape a day or two around it.
The valley behind the lake
Canandaigua means the chosen spot in the Seneca language, and the city at its head has been chosen often: the Treaty of Canandaigua between the United States and the Six Nations was signed here on 11 November 1794, and in 1945 Marvin Sands began selling bulk wine from town under a name, Canandaigua Industries, that grew into Constellation Brands. The lake's own wine, though, has always been made somewhere else: three miles beyond the southern tip, in the valley where Naples sits, and in the hills climbing west of the shore.
A Naples lawyer set out the valley's first vineyard in 1844, plantings spread through the 1860s, and in 1888 Jacob Widmer started making wine under his house, a cellar that grew into a national name. That plant is now Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars, where a Seneca Lake family makes its Catawba-based Red Cat; in the village a winemaker with 25 California and Oregon vintages behind him pours dry Meritage and traditional-method sparkling; and up on Route 64 the family that has farmed the same hills since the early 1900s sells Traminette and grape pie from one shop. Native and hybrid grapes beside vinifera, sweet beside dry: that is the honest state of the valley, and it makes Canandaigua a better lake than most for understanding how the Finger Lakes travelled from Catawba to Riesling.
The lake itself is 15.5 miles long and 276 feet deep, the drinking water for the city and town of Canandaigua, with no bridge across it and no winery on its shore. Route 21 runs from the city down the west side to Naples in about half an hour, and the seven wineries here sit along or just off it, at the two ends and in the hills between. Canandaigua has the hotels and the lakefront; Naples has the pies and three tasting rooms within a few doors. Base at either end, and keep a second day for Keuka Lake or Geneva.
Canandaigua Lake and its nearest wineries on the map
- On Canandaigua Lake
- Nearby, not on Canandaigua Lake
Each pin sits on the winery's street address. The chips show only what a winery states on its own website, and they narrow the lists below as well. Muted pins are the nearby wineries that are not on Canandaigua Lake.
Every winery on all eleven lakes, with wine-style filters, saved favourites and suggested stops between one tasting room and the next.
The Canandaigua Lake wineries, stretch by stretch
The seven wineries fall into three short stretches. Two are at the north end: a cellar on the city of Canandaigua's South Main Street and a Saturday tasting room a minute off Routes 5 and 20 near East Bloomfield. Two are in the hills above the west shore on Routes 21 and 64, both run by branches of the same farming family. Three are in the village of Naples, beyond the southern tip, where the valley's wine history lives. Six of the seven belong to the Canandaigua Lake Wine Trail, a membership organisation of eight; the two members not yet listed here are the Heron Hill tasting room on Seneca Point Road, above the west shore and a satellite of the Hammondsport winery, and Song Hill Winery in Victor, some ten miles north of the lake. Raymor Estate Cellars is the one non-member, which says nothing about its wines.
- Canandaigua and the north end (2)
- West side hills (2)
- Naples and the south end (3)
- Nearest wineries (12)
The lake list runs north to south, the order you would drive it, and the nearby list runs nearest first. Each name opens the winery's own page, with hours, wines and places to stay close by.
Canandaigua and the north end 2 wineries
The city at the head of the lake and the farm country west along Routes 5 and 20. Acquilano Wine Cellars is a downtown cellar, opened in 2024, that pours its own Riesling, Blaufränkisch and Cabernet Franc beside wines from other Finger Lakes producers and stays open into the evening; Raymor Estate Cellars near East Bloomfield is a Saturday-and-appointment tasting room where Seyval Blanc and Noiret share the list with still cider and wine-cider blends. Neither has a lake view; both are a short drive from the pier and Sonnenberg.
| Winery | Town | Dogs | Kids | Food | Book online |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acquilano Wine Cellars | Canandaigua | Yes | |||
| Raymor Estate Cellars | Bloomfield |
West side hills 2 wineries
Route 21 climbs out of the city along the ridge above West Lake Road, and Route 64 forks from it at Bristol Springs towards Bristol Mountain. The two wineries here are one family's work: Barrel Necessities at Randall-Standish Vineyards pours in a barn on land the Randall and Standish families have farmed since the early 1800s, and Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery, opened in 1987 by John Brahm III, whose nephew and niece run the barn on Route 21, was the first winery to bottle Traminette and sells grape pies beside it.
| Winery | Town | Dogs | Kids | Food | Book online |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrel Necessities at Randall-Standish Vineyards | Canandaigua | ||||
| Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery | Naples | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Naples and the south end 3 wineries
Route 21 into the village of Naples, about three miles beyond the southern tip, at 800 feet in a valley that has grown grapes since 1844. Two tasting rooms sit a few doors apart on North Main Street, Hometown Wine Company in the carriage house of a 1790s home and Inspire Moore Winery & Vineyard in the historic centre, and Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars fills the old Widmer's plant on the hillside above, with a trail through the abandoned vineyards behind it.
| Winery | Town | Dogs | Kids | Food | Book online |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hometown Wine Company | Naples | ||||
| Inspire Moore Winery & Vineyard | Naples | ||||
| Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars | Naples | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Nearest wineries 12 wineries
Canandaigua sits between two bigger wine lakes, and a base here turns both into day trips. About 40 minutes from Naples, the west shore of Keuka Lake above Hammondsport holds Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery, the estate where European vines were proved in New York, with Azure Hill Winery and Point of the Bluff Vineyards on the same hillside; from Canandaigua, Route 364 reaches the north end of Keuka and Vineyard View Winery, Yates Cellars and Stever Hill Vineyards in about the same time. East on Routes 5 and 20, Geneva is 25 minutes away: Ravines Wine Cellars and its kitchen, Trestle Thirty One downtown, then Belhurst Castle and Winery, Billsboro Winery and Scout Vineyards down Route 14 on the north-west shore of Seneca Lake. Towards Rochester, 20 Deep Winery at Mendon has made Gamay Noir its signature. Drive times are approximate and assume a start from Canandaigua or Naples.
| Winery | Town | Drive | Dogs | Kids | Food | Book online |
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| Stever Hill Vineyards | Branchport | Keuka LakeAbout 40 minutes from Naples and about 45 from Canandaigua, above the west branch of Keuka Lake at Branchport. | ||||
| Vineyard View Winery | Keuka Park | Keuka LakeAbout 40 minutes from Canandaigua via Route 364 and Route 54A, on the hill between Keuka Lake's two branches. | Yes | Yes | ||
| Yates Cellars | Keuka Park | Keuka LakeAbout 40 minutes from Canandaigua via Route 364 and Route 54A, between Branchport and Penn Yan. | ||||
| Ravines Wine Cellars — Winery & Tasting Room at Geneva | Geneva | Seneca LakeAbout 25 minutes east of Canandaigua on Routes 5 and 20, on the west edge of Geneva. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Point of the Bluff Vineyards | Hammondsport | Keuka LakeAbout 35 minutes south of Naples, on the west side of Keuka Lake above Hammondsport. | ||||
| 20 Deep Winery | Mendon | Near RochesterAbout 25 minutes north-west of Canandaigua via Routes 5 and 20 and Route 64, in Mendon. | Yes | Yes | ||
| Trestle Thirty One | Geneva | Seneca LakeAbout 25 minutes east of Canandaigua on Routes 5 and 20, in downtown Geneva. | Yes | Yes | ||
| Azure Hill Winery | Hammondsport | Keuka LakeAbout 35 to 40 minutes south of Naples, on the west side of Keuka Lake near Hammondsport. | ||||
| Belhurst Castle and Winery | Geneva | Seneca LakeAbout 30 minutes east of Canandaigua via Routes 5 and 20 and Route 14 south from Geneva. | Yes | Yes | ||
| Billsboro Winery | Geneva | Seneca LakeAbout 30 to 35 minutes east of Canandaigua via Routes 5 and 20, then Route 14 south from Geneva. | Yes | Yes | ||
| Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery | Hammondsport | Keuka LakeAbout 40 minutes south of Naples, on Middle Road above the west shore of Keuka Lake near Hammondsport. | Yes | |||
| Scout Vineyards | Penn Yan | Seneca LakeAbout 40 minutes from Canandaigua via Routes 5 and 20, then Route 14 south past Geneva, the furthest south of the Route 14 stops. | Yes |
What to drink around Canandaigua Lake
Start with the grapes the valley was built on, because nowhere else in the Finger Lakes are they so frankly in view. Catawba, the purplish-red American grape that made Ohio's sparkling wine famous in the 1850s, is the base of Red Cat, the sweet blend Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars makes in Naples and sells more of than anything else; it began as a home wine called Red Catawba, trodden in a tub in the founders' driveway. Taste it beside the Pink Cat, the Niagara-based White Cat and the Concord-flavoured Red Cat Dark and you have the labrusca family in four glasses: grapey, musky and unmistakable. Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery keeps Catawba and Concord on its list too, and Concord is the grape in a Naples grape pie.
The hybrids are the valley's middle ground, and one of them owes its commercial life to the Bristol hills. Traminette, a cross of Gewürztraminer with a French-American hybrid made in Illinois in the 1960s and developed at Cornell's Geneva station, keeps the lychee and spice of its Alsace parent with far better winter hardiness; John Brahm III, after 23 years at Widmer's, was the first to bottle it, and Arbor Hill still makes it dry and semi-sweet. Raymor Estate Cellars pours Seyval Blanc, Vidal, Vignoles and Noiret, the peppery Cornell red released in 2006 that is free of the foxy note older red hybrids carry; Inspire Moore Winery & Vineyard makes Cayuga White, the first of Cornell's Finger Lakes releases in 1972; and Barrel Necessities at Randall-Standish Vineyards pours Crimson Cabernet, a cross of Cabernet Sauvignon with Norton that the Brahms planted in 2019 and first picked in 2022.
Then the vinifera, where the newer names concentrate. Hazlitt pours a dry Riesling, a Grüner Veltliner and a Gewürztraminer beside the Cats, and its solera sherry took the Governor's Cup at the 2022 New York Wine Classic. Inspire Moore, founded in 2007, names its wines for virtues and leans dry: a Blaufränkisch rosé called Grace, a Cabernet Franc called Wisdom, a Meritage-style blend called Truth, with dry and semi-dry Rieslings alongside. Acquilano Wine Cellars in the city makes Riesling, Chardonnay, Blaufränkisch and Cabernet Franc. The outlier is Hometown Wine Company, whose winemaker spent 25 vintages in California and Oregon and buys from growers across the country rather than from the valley: Meritage, Cabernet Sauvignon, Vermentino and two traditional-method sparklings, all finished dry. It is the driest room in Naples; start there.
Naples, the valley and its wine history
Naples sits at about 800 feet, some 120 feet above the lake, where Naples Creek comes down between steep wooded hills three miles south of the water. E. A. McKay, a local lawyer, set out the first vineyard here in 1844; plantings spread through the 1860s; D. H. Maxfield opened cellars in 1882, and in 1888 Jacob Widmer began making wine under his house; a town history of the period called Naples the wine centre of the East. The Canandaigua company that grew into Constellation Brands bought Widmer's in 1986 and made Manischewitz kosher wine in the plant, and in 2011 the Hazlitt family of Seneca Lake, growers since 1852 and winemakers since 1985, took the building over to make Red Cat there. The 0.7-mile trail behind Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars climbs through the abandoned Widmer vineyards from May to October and shows how steep the old plantings were.
The farming families outlasted the corporations. In the early 1900s Anna Randall married Elmer Standish and began the grape-growing line that runs through both hill wineries: their daughter Doris married John Brahm Jr., two of their four sons bought the Randall farm in 1971 and grew for the big wineries, and when those cut their purchases in 1975 the family turned to pressing juice for home winemakers, which Randall-Standish still does each autumn. John Brahm III left Widmer's to open Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery with his wife Katie in 1987; his daughter and son-in-law run it now, and his nephew TJ and niece Melissa opened Barrel Necessities at Randall-Standish Vineyards on the home farm in 2023. In the village, the Moore family has run Inspire Moore Winery & Vineyard since 2007, the son now making the wine his late father started, and Hometown Wine Company opened in autumn 2025 in the carriage house of the Ephraim Cleveland House, a home of around 1794 on the National Register.
The pie came later than the vines. In 1959 the owners of the Redwood Restaurant wanted something to draw visitors from Rochester; the Concord grape pie their kitchen devised was taken up by Irene Bouchard, who baked 700 of them in 1964 and 300 a day each October by 1980, and the village put up a marker to her in 2025. The Naples Grape Festival, held since 1961, runs on 26 and 27 September 2026 with its grape pie contest judged at noon on the Saturday; Arbor Hill sells pies from its shop the rest of the year.
How the lake and the hills shape the wine
The Finger Lakes appellation, in force since 1982, rests on two things the federal rule spelled out: the lake effect of eleven deep lakes, which creates less severe temperature extremes in winter and summer, and the air drainage of the sloping land around them. Water warms and cools far more slowly than land. Through spring a deep lake stays cold and holds bud-break back until the worst frosts have passed; through autumn it gives back the summer's heat and pushes the first killing frost later, which is the margin a late-ripening grape such as Riesling needs. The petitioners put the limit of commercial grape growing at a 143-day season, and the lakes are what supply it.
Canandaigua is 276 feet deep, less than half Seneca's 618 but deep enough to do this work along its shores. The difference here is that the vineyards were mostly never on the shores. They went into the Naples valley three miles south of the water and up the hillsides on either side of it, and into the Bristol hills west of the lake where Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery and Barrel Necessities at Randall-Standish Vineyards farm today, a few miles from the water rather than on it. It helps explain why the valley leaned on hardy natives and hybrids for so long: Catawba and Concord shrug off winters that damage vinifera, and Traminette was bred to keep Gewürztraminer's flavour with better cold tolerance. Slope is the compensation. On a hillside, cold air drains downhill past the vines on still nights instead of pooling around them, and the valley's sides are steep enough for that to work. On the east shore, at Vine Valley, Middlesex families lined the hillsides with vineyards from the mid-1800s and still grow grapes for the big companies, but none of the wineries in this guide is there.
The vinifera poured in Naples today, Grüner Veltliner and dry Riesling at Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars, Blaufränkisch and Cabernet Franc at Inspire Moore Winery & Vineyard, leans on partner growers around the region as much as on the valley, and Hometown Wine Company buys beyond New York altogether. None of it is written into an appellation. Canandaigua has no American Viticultural Area of its own, only Cayuga Lake (1988) and Seneca Lake (2003) do, and its wines carry the Finger Lakes name.
Canandaigua and the north end, beyond the tasting room
The city gave the lake its name and the wine trade one of its giants. The Treaty of Canandaigua between the United States and the Six Nations was signed here on 11 November 1794; Susan B. Anthony was tried in the county courthouse in June 1873 for voting and fined 100 dollars she never paid; and Marvin Sands founded Canandaigua Industries here in 1945, selling bulk wine to bottlers, the business that became Constellation Brands in 2000. Acquilano Wine Cellars is the city's own winery now, on South Main Street, opened in 2024 by Jim Acquilano after a 40-year career in mental healthcare and study at Finger Lakes Community College's wine centre; it pours its own wines beside those of other Finger Lakes producers, takes table bookings, and stays open until 9 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, hours after the country tasting rooms close.
The lakefront is the other reason to base here. Kershaw Park's nine acres and beach sit beside the City Pier of 1848 with its 80 wooden boathouses on finger piers built in 1903; the Canandaigua Lady, a replica double-decker paddlewheeler, sails lunch, afternoon and dinner cruises from the pier from May to October. Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park, a 40-room Queen Anne house finished in 1887 with nine formal gardens laid out between 1902 and 1919 on 50 acres, is open May to October, and its Bay House holds the Finger Lakes Wine Center, which pours New York wines on weekend afternoons in season with no garden ticket needed.
West of the city, Raymor Estate Cellars opens on Saturdays and by appointment a minute off Routes 5 and 20, with still ciders and wine-cider blends beside the wine. South on Route 64, Bristol Mountain has 1,200 vertical feet of skiing in winter and runs weekend Sky Rides up the chairlift for the autumn colour from mid-September to the start of November, and Ontario County Park at Gannett Hill, high in the Bristol hills, looks east from the Jump-Off overlook across the county to the hills beyond Seneca and Cayuga. West Lake Road along the shore passes Onanda Park's beach and hillside trail but no winery. Each winery's page here lists places to stay close by, and the trip-planning guide compares Canandaigua with Naples and the other bases.
A day trip further afield
Canandaigua's own wineries make one full day; the neighbours make the second. From Naples, 35 to 40 minutes over the hills to the south-east, the west shore of Keuka Lake above Hammondsport holds Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery, where Konstantin Frank planted the vinifera vines in 1958 that proved Riesling and Pinot Noir could survive a New York winter on the right rootstocks; its seated tastings are worth booking. On the same hillside, Azure Hill Winery, one of Keuka's smallest, pours stainless-steel Riesling and Saperavi on a deck, and Point of the Bluff Vineyards opens Thursday to Sunday with Riesling, rosé and sparkling wine. From Canandaigua, Route 364 down the east side of the lake and on to Route 54A reaches Keuka's north end in about 40 minutes, where Stever Hill Vineyards, Vineyard View Winery and Yates Cellars pour long lists from dry Riesling to sweet Niagara, the first two fifth-generation farms and the last in an 1838 mansion.
East on Routes 5 and 20, Geneva is 25 minutes from the city. Ravines Wine Cellars, in a slate-roofed barn on the north-west corner of Seneca Lake, makes the bone-dry Riesling that set a regional benchmark from its first vintage in 2002, has a kitchen and is the strongest single reason for the drive; Trestle Thirty One is a downtown tasting lounge with a loft to sleep in; and down Route 14, Belhurst Castle and Winery adds an 1880s castle with two restaurants and rooms, Billsboro Winery a dry programme of Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir and Syrah, and Scout Vineyards a seated, Chardonnay-led tasting with artist labels. Towards Rochester, 25 minutes north-west, 20 Deep Winery at Mendon planted its first vines in 2019 and has made Gamay Noir its signature, from rosé to a barrel-aged red.
Making the most of a visit to Canandaigua Lake
Base in Naples for the wine and Canandaigua for the lake, taste the valley in order from the driest room in the village to Red Cat, and keep the second day for Keuka or Geneva.
- Pick your end. Naples puts three tasting rooms within a few doors of each other and Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery a short drive up Route 64, and it is the better base for a wine day; Canandaigua has most of the hotels, the pier and Sonnenberg, and is 25 minutes from Geneva. Route 21 links the two in about half an hour, so a weekend can have both.
- Taste the valley in order. Start dry and finish sweet. In Naples that means Hometown Wine Company first for the sparkling and the Meritage, Inspire Moore Winery & Vineyard for Riesling and Blaufränkisch, then Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars for the Grüner Veltliner before you allow yourself the Cats. Wherever a dry and a semi-sweet version of the same grape are poured, ask for both; at Arbor Hill that is the two Traminettes, and the acidity explains why the sweeter one works.
- Check the days before you drive. Two of the seven keep short weeks: Raymor Estate Cellars opens Saturdays from 12 to 5 and otherwise by appointment, and Barrel Necessities at Randall-Standish Vineyards Saturdays from 12 to 4, March to December, going daily for the September and October harvest. Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery runs its guided tastings Thursday to Sunday by reservation; Hazlitt closes Tuesday and Wednesday; Hometown is walk-in only, Wednesday to Sunday, and 21 and over. Each winery's page here carries its current hours.
- Eat at Arbor Hill, or in the villages. Only one winery here has a kitchen: Brew and Brats at Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery, the carriage-barn restaurant where the tastings are held, with grape pies, wine sauces and mustards in the shop beside it. Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars sends every tasting out with a bowl of popcorn and sells meat and cheese baskets for its lawn, and Hometown Wine Company plates cheese and charcuterie. Otherwise the restaurants are in Naples and Canandaigua.
- Choose the season. Late September is the valley's moment: the Grape Festival on 26 and 27 September 2026, juice pressing at Randall-Standish and the Bristol hills turning; book a Naples bed early for that weekend. Summer brings the paddlewheeler and Hazlitt's hillside trail, and Labor Day weekend ends with the Ring of Fire around the shore. From November Inspire Moore Winery & Vineyard shortens its week and Barrel Necessities at Randall-Standish Vineyards closes for January and February, so confirm hours before a winter drive.
- Settle the driving, then what to take home. No bridge crosses the lake and every winery here is on the west side or beyond the ends, so the day is an out-and-back on Route 21 with a detour on Route 64: nominate a driver who is not tasting, or book a tour. To take home, choose the bottles you will not find elsewhere: a dry Traminette, a Crimson Cabernet, a Grüner Veltliner from Naples, and a grape pie. Ask at the counter about shipping.
Common questions
How many wineries are on Canandaigua Lake?
Seven appear in this guide, from the city of Canandaigua at the north end to the village of Naples beyond the south, none of them on the shore itself. The Canandaigua Lake Wine Trail, a membership organisation founded in 1990, counts eight wineries on a 30-mile route from Victor to Naples; six of the seven here are members, and the two members not yet listed here are the Heron Hill tasting room on Seneca Point Road above the west shore and Song Hill Winery in Victor.
What wines is Canandaigua Lake known for?
The whole American spectrum, poured without apology. The Naples valley built its trade on native Catawba and Concord, and they are still here: Red Cat, the Catawba-based sweet blend made in the old Widmer's plant, is the bestseller at Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars. Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery was the first winery to bottle Traminette and makes it dry and semi-sweet; Seyval, Vignoles, Noiret, Cayuga White and Crimson Cabernet fill out the hybrids. The vinifera side is newer: dry Riesling and Grüner Veltliner at Hazlitt, Blaufränkisch and Cabernet Franc at Inspire Moore Winery & Vineyard and Acquilano Wine Cellars, and dry Meritage and traditional-method sparkling at Hometown Wine Company.
Where should I start on Canandaigua Lake?
In Naples if the wine is the point: Hometown Wine Company and Inspire Moore Winery & Vineyard are a few doors apart on North Main Street, Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars is on the hill above the village, and Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery is a short drive north on Route 64. From the city, begin at Acquilano Wine Cellars on South Main Street, then take Route 21 south past Barrel Necessities at Randall-Standish Vineyards into the hills; there is no loop to drive, so the lake is an out-and-back.
When is the best time to visit Canandaigua Lake wineries?
Late September and October: the harvest, the Naples Grape Festival on 26 and 27 September 2026 and colour in the Bristol hills; book a Naples bed early for the festival weekend. June to August is lake season, with the paddlewheeler from the city pier, Hazlitt's hillside trail and the late hours of its Wine Chalet. Winter narrows the choice: Inspire Moore Winery & Vineyard drops to Friday to Sunday from January to March and Barrel Necessities at Randall-Standish Vineyards closes those two months, so confirm hours before driving up the hill roads.
Do I need a reservation to taste on Canandaigua Lake?
Rarely, but check the day. Arbor Hill Grapery & Winery asks for a reservation for its guided tastings, Thursday to Sunday, though its walk-in flights run daily; Hazlitt Red Cat Cellars recommends booking only for groups of eight or more; Hometown Wine Company takes no reservations at all and seats groups of up to eight, first come first served; Acquilano Wine Cellars books tables through its website; and Raymor Estate Cellars tastes by appointment outside its Saturday hours. Book ahead for the Grape Festival weekend, when the valley fills.
Where should I stay for a Canandaigua Lake wine tour?
Naples for the wine: the village has an inn built in 1841 with an 1,800-bottle cellar from the turn of the last century, the Naples Hotel and a few bed-and-breakfasts, with four wineries within a few miles and Keuka Lake about 40 minutes on. Canandaigua for everything else: lakefront hotels including Hotel Canandaigua, which belongs to the wine trail, the pier, Sonnenberg and Geneva 25 minutes away. The trip-planning guide compares bases across the lakes.
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