Welcome to Wines By Design!
We are a full service, on-premises wine making facility and wine-making kit supplier, located in Rochester NY. If you’re interested in making your own wine, come on in and we can help! We have hosted families, small groups, wedding parties and corporate team building events.
Or, if you are already an experienced vintner and are simply looking for supplies, we can help with that too. While our primary focus is wine-kits, check in with us, if we don’t have it in stock, we can probably get it for you!
For more detail on how your time will be spent making your very own wine, please see: our process.
2026 Wine Tasting Competition
It’s that time again!
The 2026 Wine Tasting Event is happening at Wines By Design! Bring your own wine and join in the judging for an afternoon of great flavors and friendly competition.
Alias
From our friends at Winexpert: Alias, a blend of Monastrell, Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo!
Juice Sale 2025
For all you home vintners: It’s that time of year again, we’re having our annual Juice sale.
2025 Wine Tasting Competition Results
The 2025 Wines By Design wine tasting event is complete! Check out the winning entries!
2026 Wine Tasting Competition
The WBD Wine Tasting Competition is on!
As always, last year’s Wine Tasting event was a fantastic celebration of great wine and even better company!
You’ve put time, care, and craftsmanship into perfecting your wines here at Wines By Design — now it’s your chance to showcase the results. Enter your personally crafted Wines By Design wine and let others experience what you’ve created.
Mark your calendar: Saturday, March 14, from 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
We can’t wait to taste what you’ve been working on!
The store will be closed for regular business on the day of the event, as we’ll be dedicating the entire day to the Wine Tasting!
We’ll have three entry categories: Red, White, and Dessert/Fruit. All submitted wines will be transferred into numbered bottles for a blind tasting, and you’ll be part of the judging panel. The highest-scoring wine in each category will be declared the winner, and the top overall score among them will earn Best of Show.
Prizes:
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Best of Show: $100 Wines By Design gift certificate
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Category Winners (2): $50 Wines By Design gift certificate each
Each person may submit up to one bottle (or two per couple).
To enter, please drop off your bottle(s) at the store no later than Friday, April 11 at 6:00 PM.
Please note: This event is limited to wines made at Wines By Design using our wine kits. Wines made from fresh juice are not eligible.
For those attending but not entering a bottle, there will be a $5 participation fee. (Contest entrants attend free.)
As a special bonus, all attendees will receive 15% off all in-stock wine kits during the event. (Discount applies to current inventory only and excludes Limited Edition kits.)
Quick Recap
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Drop off up to 1 bottle per person by Friday, April 11 at 6:00 PM
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Join us for judging on Saturday, April 12 starting at 12:00 PM
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Compare your wines with fellow Wines By Design winemakers
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Enjoy palate-cleansing crackers, appetizers, snacks, and more — provided by WBD
We’re looking forward to a fun, friendly day of great wine and great company!
Alias
Monastrell, Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo
concentrated flavours.
Ideal with smoked or barbecued meats, wild rice with shiitake mushrooms, chorizo, or Manchego cheese. For dessert, pair with dark chocolate fondue.
Juice Sale 2025
Juice Sale 2025
Once again, Wines By Design is having a Fresh Juice Sale!
Please note, we have closed off orders for 2025!
For those of you who are home vintners (or even those who want to start): We’re having our annual Fresh Juice sale. Once again, we have a very nice selection of whites and reds (see Our 2025 Juice Sale list below).
Our address is 3392 Buffalo Rd, Rochester, NY 14624. We will be taking orders here through September 30th 2025 during normal business hours. (Tues-Fri 3:30p-7:30p and Sat 9a-2p) Alternatively, you can call the store to place a credit card order.
UPDATE: We were unable to secure a location for our targeted October 17th delivery date. As a result, we will have to deliver a day earlier than anticipated.
Our delivery this year will be on Thursday October 16, 2025. As we have the last couple of years, we will deliver the juice at the Italian American Community Center (IACC) located at 150 Frank DiMino Way Rochester, NY 14624.
(Our thanks go out to the IACC for their gracious help.)
We will begin to email and call you as soon as we have received the delivery and unloaded the truck.
Juice will be delivered in 5 gallon plastic pails and be available for ONE DAY ONLY. Juice MUST be picked up on the day the truck arrives. We CANNOT hold any juice beyond that day. Your receipt will be necessary for you to obtain your juice.
Please note: Our supplier adds sulfites to the fresh juice. This may effect fermentation if you choose to use wild yeast only.
Note: Wines By Design acts as a shipping agent only and is not responsible for the quality of the juice.
Reminder: You can keep up to date with what’s happening at Wines By Design by signing up for our newsletter on our Contact page.
Our 2025 Juice list:
Whites:
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- Chardonnay
- Moscato
- Pinot Grigio
- Riesling
Reds:
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- Alicante
- Barbera
- Cabernet Franc
- Cabernet-Sauvignon
- Lambrusco
- Malbec
- Merlot
- Montepulciano
- Nebbiolo-(Barolo)
- Pinot Noir
- Ruby Cabernet
- Sangiovese
- Shiraz
- Zinfandel (Red)
2025 Wine Tasting Competition Results
Well that was a nice day!
The WBD Wine Tasting Competition (v2025) is complete!
We would like to once again thank everyone who contributed their wines to this year’s wine-tasting event. There was a great selection of wines this year and (from what we hear, because as there wasn’t much left for us to try), they were great!
Thanks to everyone who attended: it was YOUR job to judge! We appreciate you not putting the pressure on us!
We had four categories this year: Red (1 & 2), White, and Dessert/Fruit. There were so many red wine entries that we split them into 2 groups. As a quick reminder, each category wins a $50 gift certificate to WBD, with the winner with the highest number of votes receiving an additional $50 gift certificate.
And, without further ado:
2025 WBD Wine Tasting winners ($50 gift certificates)
- Red 1: John & Barb Cittadino – Primitivo
- Red 2: Dianne & Joe Meli – Sangiovese Merlot
- White: Dawn (& Bob) Rejewski – Cru Gewürztraminer
- Fruit/Dessert: Steve Langdon – Vanilla Bourbon
2025 WBD Wine Tasting overall winner (an additional $50 gift certificate)
- Overall: Dawn (& Bob) Rejewski – Cru Gewürztraminer
Congratulations to all!
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| Tue – Fri: | 3:30p – 7:30p |
| Sat: | 9:00a – 2:00p |
| Sun & Mon: | CLOSED |
Continuing Education
Looking for something to do? Got four nights free? How about joining one of classes, we’ll show you how to make your very own delicious wine!
Wedding
Why not share your special day with all your guests? Let them take home part of your special day, a bottle of your very own wedding vintage.
A Night at Home
What’s better than a night by the fire, some artisan cheese and a bottle of terrific wine you’ve made yourself?
We heard many great things about you, so we decided to check you out for ourselves.
(BTW: They were right!)
We cannot say enough good things about Wines By Design. The quality of the wine is better than most bottles of wine you can buy at the store, plus you get to tell your friends and family you made it on your own!