December Newsletter
In This Issue:
:: Gift Baskets
:: Tasting Room Hours
:: Lake Ontario Wine Trail
:: Facebook
Greetings!

Season's Greetings!  We've finally come this far --- here is the first electronic newsletter in the history of Thorpe Vineyard to you!!  We truly hope that you enjoy this and we can be in touch better than ever.  And as always, we appreciate your comments and suggestions.
Thorpe Vineyard Gift Baskets

These become handy when you are visiting your friends and family. So why not come on over to our Ridge to have one made for someone special in your mind? My girls at the satellite store, on the Ridge, build our gift baskets from scratch. They take time to choose the baskets then sometimes even sew the liners to fit in the particular ones. Then they fill them with our wine and other items we carry. The baskets are so unique and personal that we only have a limited number of them. So come early for the best selection; you will not be disappointed!
Tasting Room Hours

On the Lake:
Sat. & Sun. Noon-5pm
until December 31

On the Ridge:
Fri.-Sun. Noon-5pm
until December 23

Holiday Hours on the Ridge
Dec 19 - 23, Noon - 5 pm

Other times call for an appointment
at the Lake, 315-594-2502
Second Annual Lake Ontario Wine Trail Holiday Tour
Dec. 10 & 11 (Sat. & Sun.)
12noon-5pm


It's this weekend!  The passport is $5 per person at the starting member you choose, that includes the tasting and pairing at each location. We will be offering the pairing of our Marechal Foch and Chocolate-dipped Fruits and Nuts at our satellite location, on the Ridge. Our next door, Orchard View, will welcome you with hot cider and dip. Young Sommer and Ontario Barn will have cheese and Casa Larga will serve chocolate. JD will prepare Sangria and Meatball Cocktails. Sodus Point Fudge & Gifts will present their own Chocolate Cabernet Fudge.  While you are at the Point, stop by the Trail's newest Associate Member, Captain Jack's, for 15% off your lunch or dinner purchase. You can also enter to win five bottles of wine (one from each Member Winery) and small gifts from the Associate Members, all packed in the new Lake Ontario Wine Trail tote bag. Visit lakeontariowinetrail.com for more info.  We hope you'll join us!
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As the holidays get closer, we always receive a request of shipping our wine. --- Yes, we are working to put this back on our website. Due to the recent regulatory changes however, we will ship our wine within New York State only for the time being. The size of the wine shippers and the corresponding shipping charges are listed to the left.

We plan to ship our wine to other possible States in future once our investigation brings some conclusion to the current situation.  Please keep checking on our website or Facebook for the most recent information from us, or you can call or email us at any time to inquire. We appreciate your patience, that also applies to our end, too!
Northern Lights

It was late October. I walked out one evening while cleaning up the day's press job during the harvest. I could hear the water in the wind so just looked up toward the Lake. The early season lake effect clouds were breaking up above the horizon and a few twinkles were in between. I stopped to figure out which stars they were --- it's just the second nature of the long time stargazer. Then I suddenly noticed that the background sky was brightening. It took a few seconds to realize what was going on as it had been quite a while since I saw the last one of those. It was just the white glow while I watched, but the following morning there were a number of posts on my Facebook wall telling me how magnificent the aurora display was. The return of the northern lights, that was exactly what I was feeling the night befor

Another year is nearing to the end and the Holiday season is with us. This is again the time to reflect what's passing and to look forward to what's coming. As our Sun has the 11-year solar cycle, we are all in the midst of the changing seasons in the stream called time. Thorpe Vineyard will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in just over a year from now. My crew and I are talking how it would be. --- We don't know yet. But we are sure that it will be a memorable year for all of us. So we hope you will join us as you have until now.

Happy Holidays to you all!

 

Sincerely,

Fumie Thorpe and the Crew
at Thorpe Vineyard
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