New York Wine and Culinary Center

On the northern shore of Canandaigua Lake, this nonprofit center runs a tasting room where you can work through flights of New York wine and beer, take hands-on cooking classes, browse a culinary gift shop, and sit down for a meal featuring New York State products. The mission is straightforward: propagate what New York grows, ferments, and makes. The region earned that mission — these glacially carved lakes produce some of the country's most serious Riesling country, and a place dedicated to understanding it is worth the stop.