I have an announcement to make, my dear readers (all eight of you). I am embarking on a new project, which I’m calling (for now) the FLX Wine and Food Exploration Project. I’ll come up with a better, more snappy name for it later, but that’s what I’m working with for now. Over the next few months, I’ll be educating myself on the Finger Lakes region, its climate, geology, soil, and other characteristics that make our locale so well-suited to producing excellent wine. Eventually I think I’ll spin it off into a new blog, but for now I’ll post my adventures here.

For examples, yesterday I just learned that AVA stands for American Viticulture Area, and that the Finger Lakes region is one of them. Yes indeed. I was vaguely aware of this before, but now I know know. You know? I mean, I read it, I put it in my brain, and now I can tell other people this marvelous fact. That’s what I plan to do with other equally (and possibly more) important pieces of knowledge about the Finger Lakes wine and food scene.