Meet the Winemakers of Living Roots Urban Winery
Meet the winemakers from “Down Under” at the region’s only urban winery in the heart of Rochester, Living Roots Winery, at this special educational event.
The event will be presented by Living Roots owner/winemaker Sebastian Hardy, who along with his wife Colleen, have owned & operated this unique winery in downtown Rochester for the past several years. The tasting will be presented in the Living Roots “Vault” room, which will include a comfortable & informal presentation of wines from the Finger Lakes and Southern Australia regions, along with the opportunity to chat with the winemaker and ask questions about their wines, process, and mission.
Assorted Charcuterie Trays will accompany the tastings & presentation (vegan tray available, upon request at event registration)
A note from our Winemakers:
Living Roots Wine & Co. is about bringing together the best of our hometowns and their surrounding wine regions in vastly different corners of the globe – Rochester, New York and Adelaide, South Australia.
Not too long ago, after working in our respective fields of winemaking and marketing, we dreamt up this crazy little business that would allow us to hop between our native hemispheres, making cool and warm climate wines and sharing them with our family and friends in America and Australia. With the help of our fathers, Mike Hurley and Geoff Hardy, and the collaborative efforts of wineries we’ve partnered up with, we were able to bring this idea to life.
In homage to our family history and our new [old] industrial home on University Ave, we’re making wine based on longstanding traditions, but with a sense of adventure and discovery. We source grapes from different vineyards and growers, with the majority of them in the Finger Lakes and the Adelaide Hills where our families have vineyards. We handcraft our wines in small batches, and each vintage is an opportunity to explore new vineyards, varieties, and styles, while allowing the wines to express their diverse natural environments and origins.
We look forward to seeing you at our urban winery and tasting room in the Neighborhood of the Arts, where we’re featuring our wide range of wines from New York State and South Australia.
Cheers,
Sebastian & Colleen Hardy
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Help us keep you safe! Women For WineSense is following New York State guidelines to ensure you have an enjoyable time at the event while staying safe...
To minimize exposure, we request you arrive no more than 15 minutes before the start. Upon your arrival at Living Roots, please have your face covering on, check-in and proceed to your table.
Living Roots Winery will be following all New York State and CDC guidelines:
Guests are to remain in their seats while eating, drinking, and enjoying the event. Guests can take their masks off when seated, but will be required to wear a mask when entering, exiting, using the restroom, and standing for any reason.
Guests will no longer be able to order drinks from the bar, but full table service is offered for all styles of bar service.
In order to follow social distancing guidelines, tables will be restricted to 10 maximum guests at one table, and 6ft of distance between tables in The Vault, as well as the public Tasting Room. This capacity restriction limits events to an absolute maximum of 20 guests.
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