Another busy harvest season is wrapped in AUS, and it was a fantastic one! Aside from making wine [old favorites and LOTS of new ones], we also worked on launching Living Roots in Australia.
If New York State’s so-called vinifera revolution had its main instigator in German-born Dr. Konstantin Frank, it could be said that another revolution, happening now, is also a product of equally passionate migrants.
Another busy harvest season is wrapped in AUS, and it was a fantastic one! Aside from making wine [old favorites and LOTS of new ones], we also worked on launching Living Roots in Australia.
After returning from Australia in May, we hit the ground running. Here’s a bit of an update:
• Our associate winemaker Beth held down the winery while we were away for vintage in the Adelaide Hills
Sebastian Hardy, along with his wife Colleen, started Living Roots, a winery melding the best of their hometowns in the Finger Lakes of New York and the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. The Living Roots story can be traced to Thomas Hard
Hello friends! We’re currently in Australia for our 13th vintage for Living Roots [can you believe it?!], and we wanted to give you a little sneak peek into what’s happening on this side of the world.
We’re *almost* ready to wrap up harvest in the Finger Lakes! There’s still late-harvest Riesling and Vidal hanging on the vines and a bit longer, but the rest of our batches are at various stages of ferment in the winery.
You might plan to attend a raucous Thanksgiving with an array of relatives and chosen family, or carefully curate a party of one. No matter the size of your celebration, with so many hearty foods around the table, it can be difficult to cater to every taste.
Labeling wine as a “healthy” beverage has stirred up a hornet’s nest recently of vocal objection and indignation.
Although the research is well-documented that drinking a glass of red wine provides antioxidants and can help protect against heart disease and inflammation
Nancy Irelan once told me that Americans torture themselves by not drinking bubbly every day. She’s the owner and winemaker at Red Tail Ridge, and she’s not wrong. In the past, I’d save my sparkling wines
Another busy harvest season is wrapped, and it was a fantastic one! Aside from making wine [old favorites and LOTS of new ones], we also worked on launching Living Roots in Australia. We’ve been making our wines
Sebastian Hardy’s favorite book is titled The Obstacle is The Way. He often listens to audiobooks or podcasts for a mindful way to unwind after his busy days making wine. Colleen, his business partner and wife,
Rieslings from New York are among the best examples of the variety in the country, with those from the Finger Lakes region leading the charge. About 1,000 acres are planted to the grape in the area, making it a relatively small affair
We landed in South Australia at the end of January [just as we came out of the orange zone in Rochester and our tasting room was once again permitted to be open for service] to allow for two weeks of hotel quarantine.
2020. What a year, right? We’ve found ourselves without wine dinners, in-store tastings, and Club events, but have stayed busy adapting front-of-house operations for COVID safety and continuing to make your favorite wines behind-the-scenes.
Sebastian and Colleen Hardy make wine in both Adelaide and Upstate New York, a wildly ambitious project rooted in the love of their home towns and families.
The origin story of Living Roots Wine & Co., Rochester’s first urban winery, begins a bit like a modern day fairytale: Girl leaves big city job, moves to a new continent to pursue a dream, mets an eligible bachelor
Once upon a time, in a land down under, there lived a grape so unpopular that winemakers would often pretend it didn’t exist. They tucked it into blends. They hid it behind its more famous big brother, Shiraz.
Written by Katie Spain for Fritz Magazine. May, 2018.
On a wall inside the production facility at Living Roots Wine & Co., two clocks hang side by side: one shows the local time in Rochester, the other the time in Adelaide, Australia.
An hour from the famed Finger Lakes wine region, Rochester, New York’s third-largest city, boasts a successful craft beer industry and, now, an emerging wine culture of its own. Exemplifying that is Living Roots Wine & Co.
Pay attention wine lovers! Help us welcome the newest kids on the block to Rochester’s food and drink scene, Living Roots Wine & Co. Owners Colleen and Sebastian Hardy are opening the city’s first urban winery and it does not disappoint.
