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Complimentary Wine Tasting featuring ATWATER and BILLSBOROR WINERIES

This Saturday night join us at our Tasting Bar with Winemaker Vinny Aliperti 

of Atwater Estate Vineyard and Billsboro Winery 

Saturday, March 10

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5 - 7pm

Vinny Aliperti started his wine journey making homemade wine as a teenager with his relatives, never considering it would one day become his profession. 

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After graduating college with a liberal arts degree and a stint in the Peace Corps, an opportunity to pursue commercial winemaking on his native Long Island was presented and he never looked back. For three vintages ('97 - '99) Vinny apprenticed under winemaker Roman Roth at Wolffer Estate, learning traditional technique in a state-of -the -art facility.

In early 2000 Vinny and his new family moved to the Finger Lakes and was hired as an Assistant Winemaker at the Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard on Seneca Lake. Just a year later, he was lured over to the east side of Seneca Lake to a new upstart, Atwater Estate Vineyards.

Since 2003, Vinny has been head winemaker at our 7000 case facility producing dynamic wines from over a dozen varieties, including Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Noir and Cabernet Franc.

With Atwater's blessing, Vinny and his wife started their own label, Billsboro Winery, in Geneva, NY in 2007. Sourcing grapes from Sawmill Creek Vineyards on Seneca Lake, Billsboro specializes in producing small lots dry vinifera wines.


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