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: Drunken Cheesy Bread
Need to find a use for some of your leftover white wines?
Juice Sale 2017 – Delivery
Update: The truck has arrived! Please pick up your juice.
Call us: We have a little extra juice available.
Juice Sale 2017
It’s official: October 13th is juice delivery day!
Sign of the Times – 8
Enjoy the Journey
Sign of the times – 2
Sign of the Times – 2
It’s our second “Sign of the Times” entry! We’ll use this series to highlight some of our favorite wine graphics, posters and labels. We’ll share some popular ones that we’ve come across as well as some favorites that you share with us!
This month: Just what the doctor ordered!
Note: A number of these are created on Canva and/or using Avery label software. You can check out our post on creating your own labels .
2016 Wine Tasting event
It’s official! The 2016 Wine Tasting Event (WBD version) is on!
Wine tasting
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.
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 8 (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:
- Drop off up to 3 bottles per person by April 8 at 7p.
- Join us for wine judging on April 9 beginning at 11a.
- See how your wines stack up against all the WBD competition!
WOTM! – February 2016
WOTM (Wine of the Month)! – February 2016
An oldie, but a goodie! It’s still winter and still time to snuggle by a fire. Not everyone knows that we carry dessert wines and ports as well as our white, red and fruit wines. This month, a quick look at one of our best sellers!
Coffee Dessert Wine (another wine from RJ Spagnols)
The coffee dessert wine has been a big hit this winter season at WBD: Typical of medium roast coffee, aromas of toffee, burnt marshmallow, and chocolate will entice you and follow through to a palate which finishes with lingering notes of vanilla.
This kit is part of the Cru Specialty lineup from RJ Spagnols. One of several port and dessert wines we have available, coffee port is nice by a fire or just to curl up under a blanket with on a cold evening.
Like all of the ports and dessert wines, this is drinkable immediately!
Sign of the times – 1
It’s National Drink Wine Day!
Sign of the Times – 1
What better day to introduce our first “Sign of the Times” entry! We’ll highlight some of our favorite wine graphics, posters and labels. We’ll share some popular ones that we’ve come across as well as some favorites that you share with us!
Note: A lot of these are created on Canva and/or using Avery label software. You can check out our post on creating your own labels here.
Regardless of today’s “sign”, enjoy the day! The sun is out and it’s a great day to enjoy a glass of your favorite vino! Whether it’s a nice Chardonnay, a deep rich Nebbiolo or an after dinner Coffee port, Happy National Drink Wine Day!
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| 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!