Welcome to Wines By Design!
We are a full service, on-premises wine making facility and wine-making kit supplier, located in Rochester NY. If you’re interested in making your own wine, come on in and we can help! We have hosted families, small groups, wedding parties and corporate team building events.
Or, if you are already an experienced vintner and are simply looking for supplies, we can help with that too. While our primary focus is wine-kits, check in with us, if we don’t have it in stock, we can probably get it for you!
For more detail on how your time will be spent making your very own wine, please see: our process.
Recipe: Orzo with peas and goat cheese
From our friends at Winexpert: Fumé Blanc!
2019 Wine Tasting Competition
The 2019 Wine Tasting Event!
On Saturday, March 23 from 12p – 4p we are holding our annual competitive tasting event.
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Good wine ==> Good people
Recipe: Mushrooms in white wine sauce
Need to find a use for some of your leftover white wines?
Why Make Wine (#2)
And now for something completely different…
From our friends at Vineco!
2018 Wine Tasting Results
The 2017 Wine Tasting Results are in!
And another year is in the books! Again, 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 meet some of you). It’s always a fun time for us, we trust that it was for you as well.
Now, let’s get to the 2018 Wine Tasting Results:
We had enough entries to split to FOUR categories!: Red, White, Fruit, and Dessert 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 2018 Winners were:
Congratulations to this year’s 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!
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We know some of you expressed interest in the entries:
2018 Wine Tasting Competition
It’s back! The annual WBD Wine Tasting Competition!
You’ve worked hard perfecting your wines here at Wines By Design and once again, you have a chance to show it off.
Coming soon: (Saturday, April 14 from 11a – 3p to be exact) we are holding our annual competitive tasting event.
The store will be closed for “normal” business, the day is devoted to the event!
Special bonus: All attendees will receive an Owners discount of 15% off all wine kits during the event. (Excludes the limited edition kits: Winexpert LE2017, Vineco Passport and RJS RQ wine kits.)
You are allowed to submit up to 3 bottles per person for the 3 entry categories: Red, White and Dessert/Fruit. Your wine will be moved into numbered bottles and you will be the judge in the blind tasting. The highest scored wines will be the winner in each category and the highest scoring of those will be named Best of Show. Best of Show wins a $100 gift certificate at WBD and the other two winners will each receive a $50 gift certificate to WBD.
To enter, turn in your bottles at the store before Friday, April 13 (contest closing time is 7p).
For the day of the event: there will be a $5 fee for those not contributing a bottle of their finest vino. (Contest entrants are free!)
Note: This is limited to wine made in the Wines By Design store (from our kits). This does not include wine made from fresh juice.
A quick recap (TL;DR):
- Drop off up to 3 bottles per person by Friday, April 13 at 7p.
- Join us for wine judging on April 14 beginning at 11a.
- See how your wines stack up against all the WBD competition!
We’ll provide: palate cleansing crackers, snacks, appetizers, munchies, and more!
Why Make Wine (#1)
And now for something completely different…
From our friends at Vineco!
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Business Hours:
| Tue – Fri: | 3:30p – 7:30p |
| Sat: | 9:00a – 2:00p |
| Sun & Mon: | CLOSED |
Continuing Education
Looking for something to do? Got four nights free? How about joining one of classes, we’ll show you how to make your very own delicious wine!
Wedding
Why not share your special day with all your guests? Let them take home part of your special day, a bottle of your very own wedding vintage.
A Night at Home
What’s better than a night by the fire, some artisan cheese and a bottle of terrific wine you’ve made yourself?
We heard many great things about you, so we decided to check you out for ourselves.
(BTW: They were right!)
We cannot say enough good things about Wines By Design. The quality of the wine is better than most bottles of wine you can buy at the store, plus you get to tell your friends and family you made it on your own!