New York State

Finger Lakes

Merlot

Cabernet Franc

Cabernet Sauvignon

A small block of our vineyard produces a surprising quality of Merlot for a dry red wine with elegant fruit and soft tannins from older oak aging.

Sheldrake Point Winery is named for the prominent point of land on which it sits, located on the western shore of Cayuga Lake. Operated as an orchard and dairy farm from 1850 to the mid-1980s, the 155-acre lakeshore farm lay fallow until 1997 when a small group of wine enthusiasts organized the purchase of the land and founded the winery. 

Today, Sheldrake Point Winery continues the agricultural tradition with 57 acres of vineyard planted to ten vitis vinifera varieties, which are used to make approximately 8,500 cases of estate grown, produced, and bottled table and ice wines.

Sheldrake Point Winery was twice named New York State Winery of the Year, and has been listed among the Top 100 Wineries by Wine & Spirits magazine in three different years.

Sheldrake Point Winery

United States

2017

Merlot

Finger Lakes

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