Watkins Glen, NY

I have always been interested in visiting the finger lakes region of upstate New York. I knew the lakes were impressive, but I had no idea the area was also renowned for their wineries. The climate matches closely to that of Germany so they specialize in the same grapes. We visited many of the tasting rooms in our area and had some surprisingly good white wines. I'm typically not a fan of white wines for anything other than the mornings of Christmas and Thanksgiving, but the Rieslings were good and we left with several bottles. We also took a drive over to Ithaca to see the Cornell campus and hiked the gorge at the Watkins Glen state park. The highlight of the stop was our Drive the Glen tour were they let us take the Jeep out on the Watkins Glen track for 3 laps. Sadly, or maybe fortunately, it was behind a pace car, so I did not get a chance to see what the Jeep could really do. Danelle got a couple of good videos of us going through the esses. We had a very relaxing stop and have added the area to the list for a return visit.