Edible Finger Lakes: Eat Here Now: FLX Wienery
Recently, I took a day trip to explore some wineries on the lower west side of Seneca Lake. My favorite way to experience our beautiful wine region is to pick one-to-three wineries and find a place to eat nearby. In between tasting some really great wines at Shaw Vineyard, Villa Bellangelo and Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard, I stopped […]
Rachel Signer: A Changing Wine Culture In The Finger Lakes
Over the past few days, I traveled around the Finger Lakes in the company of various wine directors and retail managers from across NYC. I had never been, though I’d enjoyed several wines from Eminence Road and Bloomer Creek, both small and artisanal producers working naturally. The trip was educational in surprising ways, and it […]
Finger Lakes Times: RESTAURANT EXPERIENCES: Much more than hot dogs at FLX Wienery
It was a beautiful Saturday in late August. My son the Food Dude and I — and some of our friends — were traipsing down the west side of Seneca Lake, hitting a brewery here, a winery there, catching as many rays as we could along the way. Soon enough, the rumblings started from down […]
Life in the Finger Lakes: The Wienery: Seneca Lake’s Spot for Dogs, Burgers and Wines
Chef and Master Sommelier Christopher Bates agreed to meet with me early on a Friday morning at his new Seneca Lake restaurant, The Wienery, but only if we could interrupt our meeting to attend the start Finger Lakes Produce Auction in Dundee. Our conversation started over a glass of homemade kombucha on ice, a fermented […]
Rochester City News: Ithaca is gorging
According to the all-too-true joke, ’round these parts there are only two seasons: winter and roadwork. But there’s actually a third: leaf-peeping season. Watching the trees abandon their lush jewel tones in favor of a fleeting, fiery splendor is one of New York State’s genuine pleasures, and the Finger Lakes set the perfect stage. The […]
Edible Manhattan: 10 Wineries to Visit and Drink at Near the Finger Lakes
Next to me right now is a window overlooking lovely Seneca Lake, one of the Finger Lakes region’s 11 famed north-south running bodies of water. I arrived yesterday after a 5 hour trek, well worth it to be a judge in the 2014 New York Wine & Food Classic — our state’s biggest, home-grown wine […]
Times Union: Finger Lakes winery owner now wienery owner
A new wienery has opened in the Finger Lakes. No, not a new winery. A wienery. It’s FLX Wienery, which just opened at 5090 State Route 14, in Dundee, Yates County. The operators are Upstate native Christopher Bates of Element Winery and his wife Isabel Bogadtke who created the new casual eatery in the former […]
USA Today: Cheap Eats: Why not wieners and wine at FLX Wienery
Remember in that wine-soaked comedy Sideways?At the nadir of his romantic agony, Miles, the film’s pathetic protagonist, uncorks a cherished 1961 Cheval Blanc in a fast food restaurant and drinks it out of a disposable cup. Pairing an old Bordeaux with a burger and fries is shameful, right? It doesn’t have to be. So say the […]
Finger Lakes Wine Country: FLX Wienery
Some people think you can’t have it all. We here at Finger Lakes Wine Country strongly disagree. That being said – we introduce you to FLX Wienery. Chef Christopher Bates, MS, and his wife Isabel Bogadtke are bringing their own take of “high-brow, junk food” to the Finger Lakes with homemade sausages, sides, desserts, & […]
Finger Lakes Wine Country: FLX WIENERY PROFILE PIECE
Some people think you can’t have it all. We here at Finger Lakes Wine Country strongly disagree. That being said – we introduce you toFLX Wienery. Chef Christopher Bates, MS, and his wife Isabel Bogadtke are bringing their own take of “high-brow, junk food” to the Finger Lakes with homemade sausages, sides, desserts, & more. […]