Current Events

Christkindl Market – 2024

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Granger Homestead has held the Canandaigua Christkindl Market on our beautiful, historic grounds for over15 years. Our volunteer-run, juried, holiday craft show has been successful in the past, drawing vendors and shoppers from miles around. The 2024 market will be Friday, November 8th-Sunday, November 10th. 10am-4pm. Admission is CASH ONLY. Shuttles will begin at 9:45am each day and run every 30min the last bus will leave Granger Homestead at 4:30pm. EVENT DETAILS --> https://grangerhomestead.org/events/christkindl-market-2023/ ...

Handcrafted Holiday on the Keuka Lake Wine Trail

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Tickets now available! Scroll below to select your starting winery and tickets. Get ready for the holiday season along the Keuka Lake Wine Trail! Raise your glasses and your spirits as you take a self-guided tour of our member wineries. Enjoy a unique, specially-prepared experience at each winery. You’ll have a custom itinerary for the day where you’ll be treated to special tastings, wine samples, and holiday inspired food pairings curated by Lake Life Catering.  Your ticket includes a unique tasting experience at 6 participating member wineries with a custom itinerary including 4 wine samples at each stop and food pairings. This is not just your average tasting! Experiences range from owner/winemaker led tastings, behind the scenes discussions, vertical tastings, tasting unreleased wines, and more. For tickets, select an itinerary that determines your desired starting winery below. If you’re looking to hire transportation, please view our transportation partners here. If you need to purchase a ticket for a designated driver, please use code DD2024 at check out to receive $25 off one ticket. EVENT DETAILS -->https://www.keukawinetrail.com/handcrafted-holidays ...

November Deck the Halls

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Celebrate the holiday season with Deck the Halls on the Seneca Lake Wine Trail! During this event, you’ll enjoy a self-guided tour of participating Seneca Lake Wine Trail wineries decked out for the holiday season, sampling delicious wine and food pairings and collecting ornaments at each stop. Tickets are good for all three days. We encourage you to spread your winery visits out.  This is for the first weekend of Deck the Halls – we host two separate weekends for this event. Be sure to select the correct one as tickets cannot be exchanged between the two. Group Size Maximum The maximum group size for this event is 6 people, including tasters and DD ticketholders. Please do not travel in groups larger than 6. PARTICIPATING WINERIES: White Springs Winery Fox Run Vineyards Seneca Shore Wine Cellars CK Cellars Tabora Farm & Winery Fruit Yard Winery Glenora Wine Cellars Fulkerson Winery Toast Winery Lakewood Vineyards Castel Grisch Winery J.R. Dill Winery Leidenfrost Vineyards Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards Caywood Vineyards Wagner Vineyards Idol Ridge Winery Boundary Breaks Vineyard Three Brothers Wineries & Estates EVENT DETAILS --> https://senecalakewine.com/event/november-deck-the-halls/ ...

Holiday Shopping Spree on Cayuga Lake Wine Trail

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The Holiday Shopping Spree is back for its 30th year, ready to help you unleash your inner thrifty self! Get ready to treat yourself while shopping for others, crossing gifts off your list as you sample before you buy.  The Holiday Shopping Spree is back for its 30th year, ready to help you unleash your inner thrifty self! Get ready to treat yourself while shopping for others, crossing gifts off your list as you sample before you buy. Your magical Holiday Shoppers Card will save you money, and you’ll receive a souvenir wine glass, a set of whimsical souvenir ornaments (one ornament per winery), wine and food pairings, a digital recipe book, and $5 off a $35 wine purchase at every winery. Join us in our gnome-filled wonderland for a delightful Holiday Shopping Spree! November 23 & 24 and December 7 & 8 10:00am to 5:00pm 11 participating wineries This event is structured like our pre-2020 events: Select a specific starting winery for you and your friends to start at. (This is where you’ll receive your souvenir wine glass and your hand-blown ornament!) Travel the trail as you please after your first stop, The ticket is good for BOTH days, so feel free to spread the wineries out over both days or come on just Saturday or just Sunday. (Pro-tip: Sunday tends to be a lighter day, so the wineries won’t be as crowded, which makes for an excellent time to visit and get more one-on-one attention with less waiting.) Groups are limited to 12. If you ignore this limit, you risk being turned away from the participating wineries. Please help us make this event as fun and pleasant as possible for all by respecting the event policies and winery staff.  Expect diversity. Some wineries will be offering the standard bar tasting while others will be offering a sit-down experience* that may take longer. Take your time during the day and enjoy both! Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets: Each ticket is good for the whole weekend to visit each winery once. Single tickets are $65 and couples tickets are $95 (plus tax and service fee) and include: 1 wine and food pairing at each winery, per person 3 additional wine tastings per winery, per person 1 hand-blown ornament per ticket (1 for a single ticket, 1 for a DD ticket, and 1 for a couples ticket) 1 recipe collection, per ticket 1 souvenir wine glass, per person Discounted designated driver tickets are also available. The DD gets all the same perks as a regular ticket, minus the wine. They also get a ceramic mug, rather than a wine glass. $45 for a single (plus tax and service fee). Participating Wineries: Americana Vineyards Buttonwood Grove Winery Cayuga Ridge Estate Winery Hosmer Winery Knapp Winery Lucas Vineyards Montezuma Winery Six Mile Creek Vineyards Swedish Hill Winery Thirsty Owl Wine Co. Coffee provided by Cobblestone Coffee Roasters EVENT DETAILS --> https://www.cayugawinetrail.com/events/trail/2024-holiday-shopping-spree ...

Dickens Christmas Festival in Skaneateles

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Please note the event dates will be 12-4 pm: November 29 & 30, December 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, and 12-2:30 pm on Christmas Eve   PARKING INFORMATION Paid parking is available in the municipal lot between Jordan and State Streets. Free parking is available in the Austin Park Pavilion lot at the corner of Jordan and Austin Streets, and in the lower gravel lot of Skaneateles High School across from Leitch Avenue. You can find more information on parking by clicking here. EVENT DETAILS HERE! ...