Taste Live Tomorrow Night: Finger Lakes Cabernet Franc

By Lenn Thompson, Editor-in-Chief

Just a reminder that tomorrow night I'll be co-hosting a live Twitter tasting of four cabernet franc-based Finger Lakes wines as a part of TasteLive.

My co-hosts are the folks from Finger Lakes Wine Country (FLWC) and at least two of the winemakers whose wines we'll be tasting.

FLWC launched a TasteLive page a month or so ago, and this will be the first event to really kick off the page. There will be many more, so stay tuned for more announcements.

For this edition, we'll be tasting these four wines (in this order) starting at 8 p.m. ET:

• Fox Run Vineyards 2007 Cabernet Franc/Lemberger
• Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards 2007 Cabernet Franc
• Rooster Hill Vineyards 2007 Cabernet Franc
• Red Newt Wine Cellars 2007 “Sawmill Creek” Cabernet Franc

Fox Run Vineyards winemaker (and frequent NYCR commenter) Peter Bell will be Tweeting under the FoxRunVineyards account and Red Newt winemaker Dave Whiting will be under his own FLWine account during the tasting.

The hashtag we'll use is #FLXwine.

We'll kick off the tasting at 8:00 p.m. ET, and we hope that you'll join us on Twitter and on the Finger Lakes Wine Country TasteLive Site.

I'll be tasting these wines out at Lieb Family Cellars with Michael Gorton of Undertaking Wine and Henry Powderly of Work in Progress.

Comments

[Shannon Casey]

I am really intrigued by the concept of virtual tastings. Have you done this before with other services?

[Tom Mansell]

That was pretty fun. Good wines. I think a lot of people were surprised. How do you think it went?

[Lenn Thompson]

Tom, I agree that the people -- many of whom were tasting Finger Lakes reds for the first time -- were impressed.

I thought that the event went very well...many of our tasters were active participants and I think we got a touch of just about every style of CF made in the Finger Lakes -- varying oak, blending, etc.

[Michael Gorton, Jr.]

This was a great event and a great intro to Finger Lakes wine. I have had one CF from Weimer prior to this. Which on day two was excellent. My biggest challenge was finding the balance between tweeting and talking.

It was fun to leave Long Island for a night. Look forward to more of these events, especially leading up to TasteCamp 2010.

Thanks Lenn for hosting and thanks to Lieb Family Cellars for they WIFI and the awesomely great bubbly at the end of the night.