WINE · SENECA LAKE
Early February · Seneca Lake Wine Trail
The Event
The final chapter of the Seneca Lake Wine Trail's Deck the Halls season, the Wreath Auction is a silent auction across participating wineries — each hangs custom-decorated wreaths from local artists, decorators, and vineyard teams. Guests drive the trail, taste paired flights, and bid on wreaths that benefit regional charities.
It's a quieter sibling to the December event: fewer crowds, the lake at its most still, and enough candlelight in the tasting rooms to make February feel deliberate rather than endured. A weekend for returning guests who already know the trail and want to see it at its slowest.
What to Expect
Silent-auction wreaths at each participating winery
Paired tasting flights with winter comfort foods
Proceeds benefit local Seneca Lake charities
Two-day event, Saturday and Sunday
Deep-winter lake views — bring a warm coat
Why This One Matters
“Two months after the holidays, the wine trail opens its quietest, most intimate weekend of the year.”
Planning Your Stay
Pair It With
DINING · ROCK STREAM
A working family dairy in Rock Stream doing both award-winning artisan cheese and farm-fresh ice cream — the cows you can see from the parking lot are the cows in your cone. One of the marquee stops on the Finger Lakes Cheese Trail. The combination of barn-fresh dairy and a kid-height ice-cream window is hard to beat.
Visit →DINING · HECTOR
Seasonal, farm-driven menu with local wines. A long-running Finger Lakes institution.
Visit →WINERY · DUNDEE
The quiet giant of Finger Lakes Riesling — single-vineyard bottlings set the benchmark for the region.
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