red wine
Mother’s Day sneaking up on you? Don’t worry, Wines By Design can help!
Mom sometimes needs a break too. What better way to make that last than with 28-30 bottles of her favorite wine?
Consider a gift card for Mom from Wines By Design. Then let her make a day (or four) of it by coming on for our 4 visit 6 week process! She’ll leave at the end of six weeks with 28-30 bottles of her very own wine which she can enjoy in the months to come!
Whether Mom (or Mom-in-law!) likes her wine sweet or dry, white or red, a dessert wine or a fruit wine, we have something for Mom to make and enjoy.
Maybe she’d like:
- A glass of Chardonnay on a summer porch
- A glass of Green Apple Riesling on the lake
- A glass of Nebbiolo next to an evening campfire
And the list goes on and on and on. Consider giving mom a gift that she can relish throughout the year with a gift certificate from Wines By Design.
You can purchase a gift certificate right here on the Wines By Design website. Alternatively, please feel free to stop in and check us out first. (If you need to make sure that Mom will love it!)
We’re located at:
1424 Buffalo Rd.,
Rochester NY 14624.
White Peach Sangria
White Peach Sangria with white wine, what a perfect spring/summer drink!
Sangria, traditionally thought of as originating in Spain and Portugal, is a great way to enjoy your wine on a hot summer day. (Although it’s pretty nice on a porch swing too, we hear!)
Sangria normally consists of wine, chopped fruit, a sweetener and some brandy. For a fruit, you can use: oranges, lemons, limes, apples, peaches, melons, berries, pineapple, grapes, kiwifruit, and mango. For a sweetener, you may use: sugar, syrup, honey, or orange juice. Finally, you can also consider replacing the brandy with seltzer or a lemon/lime soda.
Check out our featured recipe for White Peach Sangria!
We’ll be posting additional recipes in the future, you’ll be able to find them all on our recipes page.
White Peach Sangria with white wine, what a perfect spring/summer drink!
Sangria, traditionally thought of as originating in Spain and Portugal, is a great way to enjoy your wine on a hot summer day. (Although it’s pretty nice on a porch swing too, we hear!)
Sangria normally consists of wine, chopped fruit, a sweetener and some brandy. For a fruit, you can use: oranges, lemons, limes, apples, peaches, melons, berries, pineapple, grapes, kiwi, and/or mangoes. For a sweetener, you may use: sugar, syrup, honey, or orange juice. Finally, you can also consider replacing the brandy with seltzer or a lemon/lime soda.
Note: The picture shows a little red wine and blueberries thrown in the White Peach Sangria for color.
We’ll be posting additional recipes in the future, you’ll be able to find them all on our recipes page.
White Peach Sangria with white wine
2015-04-29 07:20:35
A delicious white wine sangria (with Peaches)
- 1 750mL bottle of white wine (An aromatic white wine like Riesling or Pinot Grigio)
- ¼ cup Brandy or Triple Sec
- 2-3 tablespoons sugar
- 3-4 white peaches
- Juice from one lemon
- Add liqueur and lemon juice to the bottom of a pitcher.
- Dice peaches into cubes and add ice.
- Finish with white wine and serve immediately.
Adapted from Wine Folly
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The 2015 Wine Tasting Results are in!
2015 Wine tasting results
But, before we share the results or our Wine Tasting event, just a quick “Thank You”!
To those of you who contributed: Thanks for sharing your wine. They were all delicious!
To those of you who stopped by, tasted, and voted: Thanks for all of your “hard work”!
It was a pleasure to see all of you (and finally meet some of you). It was a fun time for us, we trust that it was for you as well.
Now, let’s get to the 2015 Wine Tasting Results:
We had three categories: Red, White, and Dessert/Fruit Wines. The wine receiving the highest number of votes in each individual category will receive a $50 Wines By Design Gift Certificate.
Additionally, an Overall Winner (the winner with the greatest number of votes) will receive an additional $50 Gift Certificate.
Our 2015 Winners were:
| Category |
Winner |
Style |
| Red |
Cindi Soppe |
Malbec |
| White |
Julie Philippone Difabio |
Pinot Grigio |
| Dessert/Fruit |
Carrie Rissinger |
Orange Chocolate |
| |
| Overall winner |
Cindi Soppe |
Malbec |
Congratulations to ALL of this years winners!
We’re looking forward to next year’s event, so set one bottle of that “special wine” aside for your next chance to win!
Reminder: You can keep up to date with what’s happening at Wines By Design by signing up for our newsletter on our Contact page.
Spring
Spring vineyard
(Well, at least it’s on the calendar…)
Just a quick reminder: Spring is almost here and now is the time to put up your summer wines!
We suggest that whites age about three months, so now is the time to start a batch! If you enjoy a nice Riesling, Chardonnay, Gewürztraminer or even a fruit wine on a mid-summer night’s eve, consider starting a batch this month.
We’ll even offer an incentive to help you enjoy those starry nights! For the entire month of March, we’ll take 15% off of our fruit wine kit price.
Stop in and start a batch of white or fruit wine for your summer enjoyment.
As a quick reminder: you can sign up for our newsletter on our Contact page.
New hours
We’ve been hearing some gentle suggestions from our customers that it would be easier for them if we could tweak the store hours a little bit. We know that everyone’s busy and has a lot on their plates, and we’d like to listen. See below for our new store hours.
We heard that you want your Saturday afternoons back. Effective immediately, we will open Saturday morning an hour earlier (and close an hour earlier) making the Saturday store hours: 9:00a – 2:00p.
As always, check out our web site for up to date store hours and announcements.
