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.
Recipe: Smoky Chorizo & Chicken Chili
From our friends at Winexpert: Tempranillo Shiraz!
Recipe: Shrimp Curry
From our friends at Winexpert: Semillion Sauvignon Blanc!
Recipe: Prosciutto & Olive Pizza
From our friends at Winexpert: Nebbiolo!
2024 Wine Tasting Competition Results
The 2024 Wines By Design wine tasting event is complete! Check out the winning entries!
Recipe: Smoky Chorizo & Chicken Chili
Unlike Mexican chorizo, Spanish chorizo is dry-cured and gives a mild, spicy-sweetness to flavourful chili that is also accented with smoky
paprika and chipotle pepper.
Would pair nicely with LE23 Tempranillo Shiraz.
Recipe: Shrimp Curry
This vibrant dish is part stir-fry, part soup and will wake up your weeknight dinner menu.
Would pair nicely with LE23 Semillon Sauvignon Blanc.
Recipe: Prosciutto & Olive Pizza
This flatbread pizza can be thrown together quickly for a simple supper to serve with mixed greens, or as a tasty nibbler to serve at any casual get-together.
Would pair nicely with LE23 Nebbiolo.
2024 Wine Tasting Competition Results
Well that was nice day!
The WBD Wine Tasting Competition (2024) 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!
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.
OK… drum roll please… without further ado:
2024 WBD Wine Tasting winners ($50 gift certificates)
- Red 1: Gary LaToy – WineMaker’s Trio Red
- Red 2: (Mr.) Copek – Nebbiolo / Barolo
- White: Steve Elensky – RQ Muscat
- Fruit/Sweet: Jasmine Smith – Pomegranate Zinfandel
2024 WBD Wine Tasting overall winner (an additional $50 gift certificate)
- Overall: Steve Elensky – RQ Muscat
Congratulations to all!
Some of you had asked, so here’s a list of this year’s entries!
2024 Wine tasting entries
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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!