Plan to visit our Tasting Room this winter. We are open 6 days a week from 10am - 5pm & Sunday from 11am - 5pm. Please call in advance to confirm our hours in inclement weather.
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Top 100 Wine and Spirits Magazine
We have been awarded the Top 100 Wineries of 2013 by Wine and Spirits Magazine for the fifth year in a row. Wine and Spirits does an extensive blind tasting of wine from around the world to identify the top 100.
Harvest 2013
New Vineyard Map Unveiled
After nearly two years of careful mapping and designing, our vineyard map has been unveiled and is now located in our tasting room. This is a very interesting and informative representation of our vineyards and vineyard activities at Hermann J Wiemer. A special thanks...
WINE & SPIRITS August 2013
Wine and Spirits Magazine recognizes five of our 2011 vintage in the "Year's Best Riesling" scores. After blind tasting 151 Rieslings from the United States, Magdalena Vineyard Dry Riesling and HJW Vineyard Dry Riesling were recognized as the highest rated wines.
WINE SPECTATOR June 2013
The Wine Spectator scores: Josef Vineyard Noble Select Riesling 2010 92 points Features a broad, ripe, unctuous feel, offering mango and papaya notes lined with accents of orange cream, ginger and Jonagold apple. The long finish is a touch languid, but this has the...
WINE ENTHUSIAST June 2013
Wine Enthusiast's June 2013 Issue features our very own Fred Merwarth and Oskar Bynke in "40 Under 40 America's Tastemakers". The article highlights the "rising young stars who are changing the way the world drinks."
WINE ENTHUSIAST January/February 2013 Issue
Titles Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard as one of the Five Top U.S. Dessert Wine Producers. "Hermann J. Wiemer is a Riesling mecca..." Read More.
WINE SPECTATOR January/February 2013 Issue
"One of Finger Lakes' top Riesling producers, focuses on single-vineyard bottlings at the Hermann J. Wiemer estate on Seneca Lake."
DAGENS INDUSTRI December 2012 Edition
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WINE & SPIRITS – Top 100 Wineries of 2012
"USUALLY WHEN I HAVE THE CHANCE TO SPEAK with Fred Merwarth for these pages in late August/ early September, he's already begun harvest. For Merwarth, the owner and winemaker at Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyards on Seneca Lake, harvest is slightly more than the usual...
SAVEUR November 2012 Issue
Hermann J. Wiemer Dry Reserve Riesling 2010 ($29) A benchmark for great Finger Lakes riesling, this best-of-the-harvest bottling comes from an all-natural winery founded by a scion of a Mosel Valley winemaking family. Long-fermented to maximize complexity, it starts...