Earle Estates Meadery News

Here comes another one of the Redneck gals to bury your palette in absolute delight!! We are pleased to welcome Precious Diamonds, a semi-sweet carbonated white table wine with full soft grape taste.

We are pleased to announce Big Red's "Twinkle". A carbonated semi-sweet, red grapey wine that brings back memories of popping mouthfuls of red grapes as a youngster. Big Red's "Twinkle" will bring out the Redneck in you.

We are pleased to announce Summer Lightning. A carbonated wine with 40% Strawberry Wine/ 30% Rhubarb Wine/ 30% Honey Wine Fragrant aromas of these fruits. The richness of the blend of honey rounds out this wine, eliciting memories of eating a fresh strawberry rhubarb pie!

We are pleased to announce White Lightnin' carbonated wine to the Torrey Ridge wine family. This carbonated wine is reminiscent of green grapes picked off the vine in Grandma's backyard and stuffed into a bottle.

We are pleased to announce Earle Estates Meadery won great honors at the 2011 New York Wine & Food Classic. A "Specialty Wine Champion" award was added in 2008 to recognize consistent quality among the increasing number of wines made from fruits other than grapes, or honey. The 2011 winner was Earle Estates Meadery with Best Honey Mead and Best Fruit Wine.

This year's competition included 726 New York wines and 15 spirits from the Long Island, Hudson Valley, Finger Lakes, Niagara Escarpment, Lake Erie, and other regions of New York State.

Torrey Ridge Winery and Earle Estates Meadery recently participated in the 2010 New York Wine & Food Classic in the Finger Lakes held August 16th and 17th in Watkins Glen, NY.

We are excited to announce Torrey Ridge Winery's Scarlet Red won Best Specialty Wine and Diamond won Best of Class in the Diamond Category.

Earle Estates Meadery brought home gold medals for our Semi-Sweet Mead and Autumn Harvest!

We are pleased to announce Torrey Ridge's Diamond wine won Best of State, Best Grape Wine, and Best Grown and Made in Medals, in addition to another gold medal. Blue Sapphire also won a silver medal and Niagara took a bronze.

Torrey Ridge Winery participated at the 2010 Golden Nose Competition held at the New York Wine & Culinary Center in April of this year. The Golden Nose is a one-of-a-kind competition that allows consumers to award the best wines from the Finger Lakes region. We are pleased to announce that our Blue Sapphire, Diamond, Niagara, and Cous'n Emmy Lou wines all were awarded gold medals. Cous'n Emmy Lou also won Best in Class in the Native Wine category!

We are pleased to announce Torrey Ridge competed at the 2010 Finger Lakes International Wine Competition and was the only New York State winery to win four gold medals. Blue Sapphire was awarded gold in the Concord competition, Catawba won gold in the Catawba class, Cous'n Emmy Lou was awarded gold in the Sweet Rose class, and Scarlet Red was awarded a gold in the Mead class.

Other medals awarded in the competition included silver medals for our Diamond and Niagara wines and bronze medals for 2007 Gewurtraminer and 2007 Riesling wines.

The Finger Lakes International Wine Competition benefits Camp Good Days and Special Times on beautiful Keuka Lake.

Earle Estates Meadery is pleased to announce the release of our first sparkling mead; Twinkle made from 100% honey wine. Very light delicate carbonation makes this a true delight. Stop by our tasting room or order online today!