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It is Independent Retailers Week, Jazz Greats at Glenora, and Ice Cream Week. Independent Retailers -- slowly disappearing - support them
Jazz Greats - Spyra Gyra at Glenora today. Ice Cream Week - Maple Walnut!
Lots to contemplate -- atter you sit back; relax, pour a glass of Glenora's finest and enjoy this week's edition.
20 July 2025
Independent Retailers Week Jazz Greats Ice Cream Week
2025/07/07/20
The Glenora Gazette
Est. 13 April 1994
The sky is cloudy over the vineyards of Glenora and the shores of Seneca on this the third Sunday morning of July and the first performances of the Jazz Greats at Glenora artists for the 2025 season. The temperature is 70 degrees with a feeling like reading of 72 degrees. The humidity is recorded at 90% (sticky) with the wind coming from the southwest at 7 miles per hour. Lake temperatures: Keuka – 62 degrees (more on this in a moment), Seneca – 72 degrees. Back to Keuka – until recently it was quite easy to get the water temperature information, however it is now embedded some place in the Keuka Lake Associations’ website which seems to be( the size of war and Peace. There is a fair amount of information on the site including a membership request on every page.
In the vineyard: The vineyards are now at a point where fruit set (the pollinated berries on each cluster) can be determined. That along with the number of clusters on each vine, and the number of vines per acre should give us a very good estimate of the size of the crop. As usual there are a fair number of variables, but growers who spend time in their vineyards should have a very good idea of the size of their crop which should translate to the thickness of their wallet at the end of harvest.
In the Production area (the cellar): Bottling for both Glenora and our custom work partners continues at a fairly rapid pace as tanks need to be empty to receive the 2025 harvest, and once activity on the crush pad commences, the activity in the bottling room generally ceases. We learned that Associate Winemaker Emily will be one of the four panelists that will be taking part in the Women for Winesense’s Great Riesling of the Finger Lakes program during their August meeting.
It has been, and continues to be, a busy week for the Inn, Restaurant, and Kitchen Teams. They hosted a rehearsal dinner on Thursday evening, a wedding on Friday, and several smaller events on Saturday. All that in addition to setting up a “kitchen under the tent” for our Jazz Greats at Glenora today. While we have tried several different items at the food tent ( some would say gourmet) we have learned that our concert guests prefer sausages, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and French fries (festival type foods).
To a degree everyone has a role in concert preparations, day of the event activities, and then as the say in the circus world – folding up the tent. The Administration team handles ticking, the cellar team is parking cars and assisting with unloading, the maintenance team with set up and take down, along with traffic control and parking, the retail team with parking and food service, the Inn Team with customers service and security – and then former Team members assist whenever and wherever needed. And the seagulls come in after the concert to pick up anything that might have been dropped.
Lots of mentions of the Spotted Lanternfly this past week. This invasive pest enjoys sucking the sap out of grape vines which results in less vigorous vines, impacts fruit (wine) quality, and in some cases the demise of the vine. Here is a link to a picture of the Spotted Lanternfly that was included in an article sent by Jim Trezis, President of Wine America -- https://mcusercontent.com/2db26622f90251ce6886efb69/images/ed5c36a7-ecfa-270e-c1b4-2919caf65b86.jpg If you see one of these critters please call your county extension agent to report the sighting. The Lanternfly enjoys the sap of the Tree on Heaven another invasive species – more information, and again if you spot this plant call your county extension agent – remember the grape vine you save may be the source of a future glass of wine -- https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ailanthus_altissima
Customer information, tracking, preferences is always an interesting topic as there seems to be many so-called truths about customers/wine drinkers such as “ I prefer dry” but then they buy sweet, etc., etc. Thanks to our POS system which allows us to collect an extensive amount of data, we can track what sells, when, and how much. We also have a perception test – asking people to tell us the color of a wine when it is placed in a dark vessel – over 50% of the time they cannot. So, when someone you that a Finger Lakes Chardonnay tastes “foxy” because the vines were grown next to a Concord vineyard, you can be quite sure they are repeating what they have heard and that is what they are supposed to say. Robert Repeaters!
Thought for the Week: Ice Cream – Life
Never settle for just one scoop
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What were you dping 22 years ago today 20 July 2003
VoVol. 20 No. 7 Wine Festival---Jazz Concert Weekend 20 July 2003
Glenora Gazette
A beautiful Sunday summer morning along the shores of Seneca and in the vineyards of Glenora—clear, crisp, and cool (59degrees) it looks like a great day for wine festivals and jazz concerts!!
The cellar team had another busy week—not only did they have their usual two days of bottling (Tuesdays and Thursdays) but this week they also had to move wine to the Finger Lakes Wine Festival and set up for today’s concert. If you are not a regular visitor to the cellar you probably have not seen the cellar team’s bulletin board. On the board is their production schedule, which shows their work and bottling plan. The plan posted currently is running from May until the end of August when harvest starts. The thing that is so impressive is that the cellar team, almost without exception, has been right on target with the plan. It really is a credit to the Team that they can develop a plan in March and April to be bottling products on specific days three to four months out and then make it happen—congratulations to the Cellar Team.
This weekend’s Finger Lakes Wine Festival (with reports of a record crowd) is providing a great opportunity for Team Glenora, Team Knapp, and Team Logan as well as the entire Finger Lakes Wine Country Community. For us it has meant a full house at the inn, great restaurant business, a 33% increase in wine sales at the winery on Friday, a 60% increase in wine sales at the Festival on Friday evening, and a 10% increase in wine sales at the Festival yesterday. It would appear that many of the festival goers are newer wine drinkers as our biggest sellers were our fruit and sweeter wines!!
Not only do we directly benefit but the fact that many of those coming to the Festival are first time visitors. Over and over we hear the comment “I can’t believe how beautiful it is here—we will be back”. And they do return with the families, friends and wallets!!
However the Wine Festival is not the only thing on the agenda. Team Knapp had its second Comedy night and dinner of the year on Friday evening. Team Logan is hosting weddings on Saturday and Sunday, and Team Glenora hosted a wedding on Saturday evening and then a jazz concert today. This afternoon Nelson Rangell will be making his second appearance on our vineyard stage providing us with some great jazz. For those who like jazz via a saxophone Glenora will be the place to be.
The vineyard teams were busy this week spraying (mold and mildew protection), raising the catch wires, disking, and mowing. It will not belong before we start “hilling up” (putting soil around the trunks of the young vines to protect them for the cold winter temperatures) and sowing cover crop. Cover crop (usually rye, or oats) is sown in the center of the vineyard rows for several reasons. It provides mulch when disked down in the Spring, a firmer floor (not mud) during harvest, and a way to soak up extra moisture if we have a rainy harvest season. Again this week we received some much-needed rainfall—1.6 inches—generally things are looking very good in the vineyards.
WindMill Skipster is on a roll—this week with help from Gordeanous (our first WindMill operator) he reported a 39.9% increase in sales over the same day a year ago.
Thought for the week: Life
There are no hopeless situations in life; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
PHOTOS
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