Finger Lakes Wine Tour Seneca Lake Self Guided GPS Audio Guide

4–9 hours Free cancellation Private tour

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About this activity

Drive Seneca Lake yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole lake in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point, Watkins Glen or Geneva, choose the wineries you want from the 42 mapped along Route 14 and Route 414, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. Narrated stories cover the people behind the tasting rooms: Konstantin Frank and Hermann Wiemer, who proved European vines could survive these winters, the four growers who opened Glenora in 1977, the Fulkersons on land their family has farmed since 1805, the castle at Belhurst, the salt beneath the lake and the Seneca Drums. No group, no schedule, no guide; stop for lunch in Hector or a walk through the Watkins Glen gorge, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops between the vineyards, because everything downloads offline. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are paid at each winery.

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At a glance

Duration: 4–9 hours
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–8
Audio guide: Chinese, English
Operated by: Wine Trails

What is included

Included

Included: 42 mapped wineries around the lake from Watkins Glen to Geneva, both shores
Included: Email and in-app chat support
Included: GPS-triggered audio driving tour of Seneca Lake: stories play automatically at each location
Included: Trip planner to build, reorder and save your own route
Included: Buy once, no expiry: use it on this trip and every future trip
Included: Complete offline download: audio, maps and route stored on your phone
Included: In-app map with navigation between stops
Included: Free content and audio updates for life
Included: One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
Included: Narrated stories on Konstantin Frank, Hermann Wiemer, the first wineries of 1977, Belhurst Castle and the salt beneath the lake

Not included

Not included: Wine tastings and tasting fees (paid directly at each winery)
Not included: Tasting reservations, where required
Not included: Food, meals and snacks
Not included: Transport: rental car, fuel, parking or driver
Not included: Mobile data used to download the tour (download over wifi and it is free)

Itinerary

Watkins Glen State Park

30 min

Nineteen waterfalls in two miles at the foot of the lake: Glen Creek drops four hundred feet through a shale gorge, and the trail passes behind the curtains of falling water.
Castel Grisch

30 min

Hilltop estate above Watkins Glen since 1983, two hundred acres with forty under vine and a terrace that looks the full length of the lake toward Geneva.
Lakewood Vineyards

30 min

The Stamp family bought a run-down orchard here in 1951 and first pressed their own grapes in 1988; three generations, a hundred acres of vines and more than 1,600 medals since.
Glenora Wine Cellars

30 min

The first winery on Seneca Lake, founded in 1977 by four growers the year after the Farm Winery Act; five thousand cases in its first vintage, now with an inn and the Veraisons restaurant.
Fulkerson Winery

30 min

Caleb Fulkerson claimed this land in 1805 and planted his willow walking stick in a spring; the seventh generation opened the winery in 1989 and makes more than thirty wines.
Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard

30 min

Mosel-born Hermann Wiemer planted vinifera on an abandoned soybean farm above Dundee in 1976; ninety acres today, a biodynamic home vineyard and the benchmark Finger Lakes Riesling.
Fox Run Vineyards

30 min

Fifty acres of east-facing vines planted in 1984 by John Kaiser, who still manages them; winery since 1990, certified sustainable, with a cafe run by chef Brud Holland.
Anthony Road Wine Company

30 min

John and Ann Martini planted their first five acres here in 1973; four Martini siblings now run thirty acres of estate vines near Penn Yan, known for aromatic whites.
Ravines Wine Cellars

30 min

Morten Hallgren, raised on a Provence estate and trained in Montpellier, founded Ravines in 2001; bone-dry Riesling and Loire-style Cabernet Franc from limestone and shale.
Belhurst Castle Winery

30 min

A four-storey castle begun in 1888 by Carrie Harron Collins, a speakeasy and casino from 1933, and since 1992 an estate winery, inn and restaurant on the Geneva shore.
Three Brothers Wineries and Estates

30 min

Four tasting rooms on one property since 2007, from bone-dry Stony Lonesome to sweet Bagg Dare plus War Horse Brewing; the most visited craft beverage stop in the Finger Lakes.
Boundary Breaks Vineyard

30 min

Riesling and Cabernet Franc only, on the steep eastern slope above Lodi; founded by publisher Bruce Murray and botanist Diana Lyttle and ranked among America's top 101 wineries.
Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars

30 min

Mark Wagner's Greek Revival winery opened in 1992 on land four generations of Wagners have farmed; 132 estate acres and every wine made in-house.
Wagner Vineyards

30 min

Open since 1979, one of the first estate wineries of the modern Finger Lakes, with thirty-plus wines, the Wagner Valley brewery and the Ginny Lee Cafe above the eastern shore.
Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards

30 min

The Hazlitts have grown grapes here since 1852; the winery opened in 1985 and Red Cat became one of New York's best-selling wines, now run by the sixth generation.
Red Newt Cellars

30 min

Founded in 1998 by cellar master David Whiting and Cornell microbiologist Debra Whiting, with the Red Newt Bistro alongside since 1999; Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Cabernet Franc in Hector.

Meeting point and pickup

Everyone meets at the meeting point.

Meeting point

These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.

End point

These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.