The news about the sale of Glenora Wine Cellar s in the Finger Lakes came out earlier this month.

The sale of one of the region’s best-known producers officially closed on Nov. 10, the day the new owners took over, the Finger Lakes Daily News reported.

FLX Family Winery, LLC, owned by brothers Brian and Kevin Lilly and a sister company to Lilly Brothers Brewing, the owner of Horseheads Brewing , and Lilly Broadcasting , an Erie, Pennsylvania-based company that operates several TV and radio stations (including WENY), is the new owner.

One person who took a couple of weeks to contact about the sale was Steve DiFrancesco, the winemaker at Glenora for 26 years, from the harvests of 1995 through 2020.

He was an assistant winemaker there from 1987 until 1990. These days, he’s a con

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