Lovely winemakers with a passion for wine, Lime Berry will delight sweet wine lovers but will leave dry drinkers underwhelmed.
Right off the bat - this place is closing at the end of the year, as the very engaging and wonderful owners sold their winery/vineyard. So if you want their wines you better get them before the end of the year. The winery is hosted in a small barn on the property with plenty of outdoor seating. They make about sixteen wines and seem to favor making sweeter wines.
The wine tasting was a very reasonable $3 a person and is guided as either a dry tasting or a sweet tasting. I'm not a fan of sweet so I tried the dry listing, and overall found them fairly average. To be fair, they were out of two dry wines, the Chardonnay and Dry Riesling, so maybe those were the better wines to taste. The Dry Vidal Blanc lacked any complexity in taste and the Semi Dry Vidal Blanc is more sweet than dry. I purchased the Heart of the Lake because of the interesting story behind the one grape which is brand new and unnamed after being developed at nearby Cornell University (this is the only winery that makes wine out of it). The dry reds weren't too much better - boring wines without any sort of boldness, they both tasted flat with just a hint of possibly developing complexity.
So yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the wines here at Lime Berry, and I'm a little confused with all the overwhelmingly positive Yelp and TripAdvisor reviews. It makes me wonder if I missed out on some of the good dry wines or that this winery's strength lies in their sweeter wines. Whatever the case, go for the sweet wines but skip if you want dry. read more