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By Wine Trails
Free cancellation available
Price is NZ$44 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 9h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

  • Drive Seneca Lake yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole lake in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point, Watkins Glen or Geneva, choose the wineries you want from the 42 mapped along Route 14 and Route 414, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. Narrated stories cover the people behind the tasting rooms: Konstantin Frank and Hermann Wiemer, who proved European vines could survive these winters, the four growers who opened Glenora in 1977, the Fulkersons on land their family has farmed since 1805, the castle at Belhurst, the salt beneath the lake and the Seneca Drums. No group, no schedule, no guide; stop for lunch in Hector or a walk through the Watkins Glen gorge, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops between the vineyards, because everything downloads offline. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are paid at each winery.

Activity location

  • Watkins Glen State Park
    • 1009 N Franklin St
    • 14891-1432, Watkins Glen, New York, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Watkins Glen
    • Watkins Glen, New York, United States

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Finger Lakes Wine Tour Seneca Lake Self Guided GPS Audio Guide

  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h
    9h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 9:00 AM
Price details
NZ$44.01 x 1 TravellerNZ$44.01
Total
Price is NZ$44.01

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    42 mapped wineries around the lake from Watkins Glen to Geneva, both shores
  • Inclusions
    Email and in-app chat support
  • Inclusions
    GPS-triggered audio driving tour of Seneca Lake: stories play automatically at each location
  • Inclusions
    Trip planner to build, reorder and save your own route
  • Inclusions
    Buy once, no expiry: use it on this trip and every future trip
  • Inclusions
    Complete offline download: audio, maps and route stored on your phone
  • Inclusions
    In-app map with navigation between stops
  • Inclusions
    Free content and audio updates for life
  • Inclusions
    One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
  • Inclusions
    Narrated stories on Konstantin Frank, Hermann Wiemer, the first wineries of 1977, Belhurst Castle and the salt beneath the lake
  • Exclusions
    Wine tastings and tasting fees (paid directly at each winery)
  • Exclusions
    Tasting reservations, where required
  • Exclusions
    Food, meals and snacks
  • Exclusions
    Transport: hire car, fuel, parking or driver
  • Exclusions
    Mobile data used to download the tour (download over wifi and it is free)

Know before you book

    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Watkins Glen State Park

  • 30m
Nineteen waterfalls in two miles at the foot of the lake: Glen Creek drops four hundred feet through a shale gorge, and the trail passes behind the curtains of falling water.

Castel Grisch

  • 30m
Hilltop estate above Watkins Glen since 1983, two hundred acres with forty under vine and a terrace that looks the full length of the lake towards Geneva.

Lakewood Vineyards

  • 30m
The Stamp family bought a run-down orchard here in 1951 and first pressed their own grapes in 1988; three generations, a hundred acres of vines and more than 1,600 medals since.

Glenora Wine Cellars

  • 30m
The first winery on Seneca Lake, founded in 1977 by four growers the year after the Farm Winery Act; five thousand cases in its first vintage, now with an inn and the Veraisons restaurant.

Fulkerson Winery

  • 30m
Caleb Fulkerson claimed this land in 1805 and planted his willow walking stick in a spring; the seventh generation opened the winery in 1989 and makes more than thirty wines.

Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard

  • 30m
Mosel-born Hermann Wiemer planted vinifera on an abandoned soya bean farm above Dundee in 1976; ninety acres today, a biodynamic home vineyard and the benchmark Finger Lakes Riesling.

Fox Run Vineyards

  • 30m
Fifty acres of east-facing vines planted in 1984 by John Kaiser, who still manages them; winery since 1990, certified sustainable, with a cafe run by chef Brud Holland.

Anthony Road Wine Company

  • 30m
John and Ann Martini planted their first five acres here in 1973; four Martini siblings now run thirty acres of estate vines near Penn Yan, known for aromatic whites.

Ravines Wine Cellars

  • 30m
Morten Hallgren, raised on a Provence estate and trained in Montpellier, founded Ravines in 2001; bone-dry Riesling and Loire-style Cabernet Franc from limestone and shale.

Belhurst Castle Winery

  • 30m
A four-storey castle begun in 1888 by Carrie Harron Collins, a speakeasy and casino from 1933, and since 1992 an estate winery, inn and restaurant on the Geneva shore.

Three Brothers Wineries and Estates

  • 30m
Four tasting rooms on one property since 2007, from bone-dry Stony Lonesome to sweet Bagg Dare plus War Horse Brewing; the most visited craft drink stop in the Finger Lakes.

Boundary Breaks Vineyard

  • 30m
Riesling and Cabernet Franc only, on the steep eastern slope above Lodi; founded by publisher Bruce Murray and botanist Diana Lyttle and ranked among America's top 101 wineries.

Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars

  • 30m
Mark Wagner's Greek Revival winery opened in 1992 on land four generations of Wagners have farmed; 132 estate acres and every wine made in-house.

Wagner Vineyards

  • 30m
Open since 1979, one of the first estate wineries of the modern Finger Lakes, with thirty-plus wines, the Wagner Valley brewery and the Ginny Lee Cafe above the eastern shore.

Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards

  • 30m
The Hazlitts have grown grapes here since 1852; the winery opened in 1985 and Red Cat became one of New York's best-selling wines, now run by the sixth generation.

Red Newt Cellars

  • 30m
Founded in 1998 by cellar master David Whiting and Cornell microbiologist Debra Whiting, with the Red Newt Bistro alongside since 1999; Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Cabernet Franc in Hector.

Location

Activity location

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    Watkins Glen State Park
    • 1009 N Franklin St
    • 14891-1432, Watkins Glen, New York, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Watkins Glen
    • Watkins Glen, New York, United States
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    Geneva
    • 14456, Geneva, New York, United States

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