VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: The Syracuse Wine Festival comes to Central New York
Lucy Vulgamore: Central New York, get ready for some fine wining. This Saturday, the Syracuse Wine Festival is coming to downtown Syracuse. The event encourages CNY residents to come taste various wine selections from vineyards across the state, and enjoy music, food and the company of other wine enthusiasts. Boundary Breaks Vineyard in Lodi is one of 52 vendors expected at the event. Owner Bruce Murray says the wine festival is a major player in bringing exposure to their business.
Bruce Murray: We are making great wine, along with a lot of other wineries here in the Finger Lakes. And the only way people get to know that is, unless they visit us or unless we visit them. And that means going to events like this.
Vulgamore: Murray owns the vineyard with his wife, harvesting their grapes off the shore of Seneca Lake. Sales and Marketing Manager Mary-Kate Badalamenti says Boundary Breaks certainly won’t be coming to the festival empty-handed.
Mary-Kate Badalamenti: So we do samplings of roughly four-to-five wines, depending on what we decide to bring. We also offer closed-bottle sales.
Vulgamore: According to Forbes.com, 37% of wines consumed by Americans are imported. Syracuse University Wine Studies professor Torrey Grant says this could impact convention-goers’ spending habits.
Torrey Grant: Now, we’re in a time where people are drinking less than ever before. But I think with the current trade situation people are going to start looking to more local wines, and we’re lucky enough to be in a place where they have availability, you know.
Vulgamore: The festival will take place at the Oncenter convention center in downtown Syracuse.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) — The Syracuse Wine Festival is coming to Central New York on Saturday. The event, held at the Oncenter in downtown Syracuse, is expected to feature a DJ, Paint-N-Sip and of course- wine tasting.
52 vendors, including wineries, distilleries and other companies, are expected to be at the event. Boundary Breaks Vineyard in Lodi, N.Y. is one of them. Owner Bruce Murray says the wine festival is a major player in bringing exposure to their business.
“We are making great wine, along with a lot of other wineries here in the Finger Lakes,” said Murray. “And the only way people get to know that is, unless they visit us or unless we visit them. And that means going to events like this.”
Murray owns the vineyard with his wife, harvesting their grapes off the shore of Seneca Lake. Sales and marketing manager Mary-Kate Badalamenti says Boundary Breaks certainly won’t be coming to the festival empty-handed.
“So we do samplings of roughly four-to-five wines, depending on what we decide to bring,” said Badalamenti. “We also offer closed-bottle sales.”
According to Forbes, 37% of wines consumed by Americans are imported. Syracuse University Wine Studies professor Torrey Grant says this could impact convention-goers’ spending habits.
“Now we’re in a time where people are drinking less than ever before,” said Grant. “But I think with the current trade situation people are going to start looking to more local wines, and we’re lucky enough to be in a place where they have availability, you know.”