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 Greetings!
Thank you for the long wait; we just bottled
Fialka and Red Duck! They are now back on
the shelf waiting for your visit!!
Also, we are extending our tasting room hours
for the  Memorial Day weekend. We'll be open from
12noon to 6pm on Friday through Memorial Day.
Our regular hours are on Saturday and Sunday
from 12 to 6pm until June 21st, when we'll be
open daily until Labor Day.
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 Anniversary Glasses
Don't forget, our 25th anniversary glasses are here, too! They are available for purchase, or get one free with a case of wine!
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Win Our Wine!  "Win our Wine" continues, and congratulations to the April drawing winners, ( Michele DeRenzo and Rose Riefer)! It's easy to win a free bottle --- just sign up on the email newsletter and like us on Facebook to stay in touch with us. We will pick a winner from each category every month. Good luck |
The following article first appeared in the spring 2001 edition of the Trillium Ridge Times. As Memorial Day weekend nears, the irises are extending their flower stalks every day. Their flower buds have just started to show the hint of purple --- it's merely a part of the annual ritual to them, but it sometimes brings so much to us who see and appreciate their beings. I'd expect to see their blossoms on Memorial Day weekend this year again; hopefully many of you could join.....
Sincerely,
 Fumie Thorpe Owner
Thorpe Vineyard
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Upcoming Events
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Sunset Tasting at Thorpe Vineyard
Saturdays from June 22nd - August 31st
6pm until sunset
Starry Starry Night
at Thorpe Vineyard
July 6th & 27th,
August 10th & 24th
sunset until 11pm, weather permitting
July 13th & 14th
"Sippin' the Lakes" Wine Garden
Corn Hill Arts Festival in Rochester
details coming soon
August 3rd
Central New York Wine & Jazz Fest at Wolcott
11am-8pm
August 15th
Wayne County Fair
Wine, Cheese and Farm Market Tasting
6pm to 8:30pm
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May Flowers
from the spring 2001 edition of the Trillium Ridge Times
When we moved out from our old house two years ago, we dug up the yard here and there to bring over some flowers bulbs to the winery with us. We made a small flower bed along the front wall of the winery barn and put them there hoping that the transplanting procedure was successful. We had snowdrops, daffodils, hyacinths, white violets, lillies of the valley, irises and daylilies. Fortunately they all seemed to have survived the move. However, perhaps because the transplant took place in May, a little later in the season than it should have been, the irises didn't develop any flowers that year. Even the daylilies had only a few flower stalks. We were disappointed but had to be satisfied with the fact that we didn't lose any of them.Last year, the second year in the same flower bed for them, were anxious to see if they would all come back again in the spring. It started with snowdrops, then shortly after daffodils and hyacinths came around quickly. About that time, irises and daylilies were showing their new growth. By the time iris blades were about a foot tall, we started to see a flower stalk extending from the center of each of the four plants. We were delighted. These irises had been, in fact, neglected for a long, long time. They were planted right next to the cellar way of our old house where it remained shady most of the time. We don't even know who planted them or when. While we had a project to build a few rabbit hutches for our pet bunnies years ago, we wound up leaving some of the materials on and around them for quite a while. Still they put out flowers every now and then; to tell the truth, some years we didn't even look at them during the bloom at all. By the time they flower in May, we were always so busy at the winery that we wouldn't bother going to the backyard to see them after we got home in the evening. So it was, in a sense, almost miraculous that we dug them up and brought over here.After having a few warm days, a stiff northerly breeze brought cool weather for the Memorial Day weekend. It was Friday morning. We walked out to the barn to start doing things when we saw all four flower stalks had their first flowers opening. The flowers were fully open by mid-afternoon and the lavender-colored, delicate petals were fluttering in the breeze. How beautiful they were in the bright sun! They continued to bloom for about a week pleasing us during the entire holiday weekend. They are still under deep snow at this moment in mid-March. But the sun is getting higher in the sky telling us of the things to come. When all the snow disappears; when the vineyards turn green; when all the summer birds are back around and chattering; we'll long to see the May flowers that had been forgotten for a long time.
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