Wine-tasting technique demands that you first swirl the glass, then take a sip, and then very slowly dribble wine down your chin so that the rest of your body can taste it. Imbibe elegance with this Groupon.

Choose from Two Options

• $26 for an Ultimate Winery Package for two (up to a $55 total value)
• $49 for an Ultimate Winery Package for four (up to a $110 total value)<p>

Each Ultimate Winery Package includes:

• Tour and tasting
• One take-home bottle of wine for every two people
• Chocolate pairings for each person during the tasting (a $6 value/person)
• One souvenir glass for each person (a $3.50 value each)<p>

On the winery tour (a $5 value/person), visitors tour the verdant grounds of the family-owned winery, after which they’ll get to sample wares during a tasting of six wines (a $3 value/person). With both packages, customers will get to select one or two take-home bottles of their favorite vintages (up to a $20 value each).<p>

Winery of Ellicottville

To the Spicola family, wine isn’t simply something sipped on at dinner or during a party. Rather, it’s the family heritage, which forms a bridge between generations. Today, Dominic Spicola runs the Winery of Ellicottville with his son-in-law Sam, but years ago, he worked alongside his father, Francesco, an Italian immigrant schooled in his home country’s winemaking tradition. Together, the duo crushed and pressed annual harvests into barrels of wine, making sure their relatives had enough to fill glasses at dinner and throughout the year.

Today, Dominic and his son-in-law mesh this Old World wisdom with New World techniques to craft chardonnays and merlots, reds and whites. They sell their bottles from an unassuming shop on Monroe Street, where sky-blue walls, family pictures, and shelved knickknacks surround a sun-splashed bar.