McGregor Vineyard — Attraction in Town of Barrington

Excellent Vineyard - McGregor was a staple visit of ours for years, so much so that we decided to become members. We truly enjoy ourselves everytime we visit. The views from the tasting room (or even better, the deck) are phenomenal. Sometimes we'll just go, buy a bottle of wine and some cheese, and just sit on the deck and relax. The staff of the tasting room are always very helpful, answering any questions you need.

Wine Tasting - A few dollars for 5 tastings, a snack plate and a glass to take home. Nice additional touches, the glass and the snacks. The staff is helpful, and ready and willing to answer questions.

The wine - I've never had a bad wine at McGregors, but some of them I like much better than others. The Chardonnay is always good, as are the Rieslings. But the reds here are phenomenal. There are a few vineyards in the finger lakes that know how to do red, and McGregors is certainly one of them. The Black Russian (also known as Saparavi) is amazing. The Rob Roy is another excellent red wine. And the Highland Red is a reasonably priced, every day red that we have really come to love.

The view - sitting high above Keuka Lake, the views can't be beat. It's a great way to spend an hour, just sitting, enjoying some wine and cheese and relaxing while overlooking the lake.

All in all, McGregor is one of, if not THE best winery in the Finger Lakes, at least in my opinion. It's not a visit to the region if you...

We were just here with family and friends. 8 of us total. My husband and I decided we didn’t want to taste. My husband had to drive home that day, and I can only taste so much wine and then am done. It was our last winery to visit. We were told we were not allowed to sit at the table with our son and his wife and our friends and not allowed to sit at any other table in the tasting room. The room was not full. We were escorted onto a porch and given water to wait for our family to be done. That was fine until it was too hot to sit out there. So we came in and the only place to sit was a low wooden bench with no back. I had back surgery in July and sitting there was painful. My son unlocked the car so I could sit in it. We were all quite surprised at this customer unfriendly policy. Where do they put non tasters if it is raining??? I have been to this winery many times as we own a house on Keuka and have never been treated like this. I will never come back here and will never recommend it. We have tasted here many times in the last 21 years , bought wine here and non tasters were never discriminated against. We have been to most of the wineries on Keuka and Seneca and never encountered this. So if you come here and decide that for some reason that you don't want to taste be prepared to pay to sit with your group or be banned from the...

Given the location and views I would have expected better wines but I guess the views don't translate to wines. Out of all the wines that we had tasted that day and between the 6 of us it was basically the full range of wines offered... Well may be most of them.

To tell the truth I was unimpressed the Rieslings in my humble opinion lacked the subtlety of flavors and nose and the Gewurtztraminer was somewhat bitter and lacked the intensity I came to enjoy in some of the other wineries in the region but even if we give it a benefit of the doubt that 2016 was generally not a favorable year for the region it still could pull off something a little better. Hopefully this years grapes would be better.

The Black Russian (Georgian and Moldovan/Romanian growers would probably have hissy fit at the name) but the wine is solid though not of the 2016 harvest and I honestly don't think it's worth $70 but that is just me.

Service deserves a special mention given that such a large parties especially those with diverse tastes would be better served by bringing the cart full of wines to the table instead of running back and forth to grab the bottles but that's just...