Penn Yan, Finger Lakes

I've been at least half-a-dozen times to the Fingers Lakes wine region and found a lack of reasonable hotels in good locations.

But now there's a brand new Hampton Inn right at the waters edge at the top of the north-western arm of Keuka Lake.

This was the view from our bedroom window. 

And next to the car park is the aptly named Top of the Lake restaurant  whose jetty can be seen at the left of the photo. In summer guests can eat outside on the jetty, but on the last day of October we ate inside.

Great winelist packed with local wines. We chose 2016 Keuka Spring Vineyards   Epic Reserve, a red blend of Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Cabernet Sauvignon from a winery just 2 miles down the lake, to accompany our Delmonico 14oz Black Angus steak.

Shame time constraints meant we could only stay one night.

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