Accent Wine Parlor Presents
Finger Lakes
Wine Journey
A curated immersion into America's most exciting wine region
Reserve Your PlaceThe Finger Lakes is not a well-kept secret anymore. It's a world-class wine region — one where Riesling achieves a tension and minerality that rivals Mosel, where Pinot Noir is finding its footing alongside the best of Burgundy, and where a new generation of winemakers is doing some of the most exciting work in American wine.
This trip is for people who want to experience it from the inside — with access, context, and the kind of company that makes great wine taste even better.
Your Host
Led by someone who
lives in this world
Gregory Stokes is an Advanced Sommelier, chef, and the founder of Accent Wine Parlor — Columbus's destination for wines that taste like somewhere and someone.
He has spent his career building relationships with the growers and winemakers who make wines he'd open for himself. This trip is the natural extension of that philosophy: not a tour, but a curated experience built on access most travelers never get. The group stays together in a private residence on the Inns at Aurora estate — a home for the weekend, not a hotel.
Joining Greg for one extraordinary evening is Christopher Bates, MS — Master Sommelier, Food & Wine Sommelier of the Year, and co-owner of FLX Table, where your group will dine. Bates is one of only a few hundred Master Sommeliers in the world, and he will personally curate the pairing for your dinner at his own restaurant.
Between the two of them, your group will have access to a level of wine knowledge and hospitality that simply cannot be replicated anywhere else.
The Producers
Old guard. New school.
All extraordinary.
The estate that changed the conversation about what the Finger Lakes could produce. Wiemer's Rieslings set the benchmark for the region and remain among the finest in North America.
Founded by Morten Hallgren with a European sensibility and a deeply site-driven approach. Ravines produces some of Seneca Lake's most consistent and refined expressions.
A collaboration between local and Burgundian expertise producing Riesling and Pinot Noir that has drawn comparisons to the world's finest cool-climate expressions.
Nancy Irelan's meticulous, research-driven estate on the west side of Seneca Lake, producing wines of remarkable depth and the region's most thoughtful viticultural work.
Founded by Kelby James Russell and Julia Rose Hoyle on their estate Lahoma Vineyard — 55 acres of rare sandstone soils on Seneca Lake. Their first vintage was 2023. The waiting lists started immediately.
A new project connected to Master Sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier — one of the world's most respected voices in natural and low-intervention wine. A visit here is genuinely rare.
The Experience
Four days.
A lifetime of reference points.
Arrival
Welcome to the Lakes
Check in to your private residence at the Inns at Aurora — a Michelin Key resort on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. The full group shares an exclusive estate home on the property: a house, not a hotel. Settle in, gather together, and open the first bottle of the weekend over a welcome dinner.
Full Day
Into the Vineyards
Board the Champagne-stocked tour bus for a full day of winery visits with the winemakers themselves. Lunch is in the vineyard. Every stop is a conversation, not a transaction. Greg provides context and commentary throughout — this is a masterclass as much as a tour.
Evening
Dinner at FLX Table
The evening centerpiece: dinner at FLX Table, the 2026 James Beard semi-finalist for Outstanding Wine & Beverage Program. Fourteen seats. No wall between you and the kitchen. Master Sommelier Christopher Bates — co-owner — personally curates the wine pairing for your table.
Full Day
The New Voices
A second day among the producers defining what the Finger Lakes will look like for the next generation. Apollo's Praise, Hickory Hollow, and more — wines that are already hard to find and harder to forget.
Departure
One Last Morning
A farewell breakfast at the Inns at Aurora before guests depart at their own pace, cellars fuller and perspectives widened.
"The last time I visited FLX Table, I was poured a 1957 Barolo. That is what this dinner can be. That is the kind of access this trip is built around."
Investment & Details
Everything you need
to say yes.
per person
This trip will sell out
among people who've
been waiting for it.
If you've been one of them, now is the moment. Reach out directly — by email, by phone, or stop by the shop.
