Nouveau Weekend on the Wine Trail

The nine wineries of the Lehigh Valley Wine Trail will debut their first wines from the 2015 vintage and other new wine releases Saturday and Sunday during Nouveau Weekend. This is the final Wine Trail event of the year.

Wineries will also feature food and wine pairings for visitors to sample. Nouveau wines are bottled very young, with limited barrel aging, and are light, fruity and semi-dry to dry red wines. The event is based on a tradition started in France and continued each year in which nouveau wines are released the third Thursday of November.

Event hours at all of the wineries are Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Nouveau Weekend is a free event, however some wineries charge for wine tastings.

The Lehigh Valley Wine Trail includes:

• Amore, Nazareth

• Big Creek, Kresgeville

• Blue Mountain Vineyards, New Tripoli

• Clover Hill Winery, Breinigsville

• Franklin Hill, Bangor

• Galen Glen, Andreas

• Pinnacle Ridge, Kutztown

• Tolino, Bangor

• Vynecrest, Breinigsville

The Lehigh Valley Wine Trail is a nonprofit organization of wineries whose mission is to promote agritourism and to create a premiere wine destination and grape growing region while promoting Pennsylvania wines from the region. All of the member wineries have won numerous awards at state, national and international levels.

For more information, visit www.LehighValleyWineTrail.com.