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One may think that after visiting hundreds of winery and vineyard tasting rooms, several should be haunted. However many owners of those that have had some paranormal activity were reluctant to discuss the haunting. There is a winery tasting room along New York’s Seneca Lake that doesn’t have that concern.
Miles Wine Cellars’ tasting room is inside a beautiful Greek revival home that looks well suited to be on a southern plantation. Not far from the house steep cliffs drop to Seneca Lake. The property offers some of the best views of the lake. The original house was built in 1802 and consisted of two rooms. It had been a wedding gift to a young couple, who met an early and tragic death. Through the decades there were several owners. Doug Miles and his father purchased the house in 1978. Doug and his wife, Susan, lived in the house for several years while they painstakingly restored the house to its original magnificence.
During the time they lived in the house they became aware that there were several ghosts who at times proved to be violent enough to make them exit the house and spend the night in their car. There were the typical doors slamming, footsteps heard and flickering of lights. There was also a mist that would rise from the floor. It seemed that the ghosts owned the house and Doug and Susan were intruders. Not all the ghosts were violent though. Several people have seen the apparition of a young couple sitting on the porch.
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The more violent ghosts did vacate the house when Doug and Susan brought in some furniture that had once been in a church sacristy. The benevolent ghosts remained. Miles Wine Cellars produces a wine called, Ghost. The Chardonnay and Cayuga blend is in a hauntingly attractive bottle. The label is silk screened with a ghostly translucent white imprint showing a young lady at a ball. You can look through the imprint to the back label showing the house. On the porch of the house a young couple is embracing. The inscription on the bottle aptly states, “Experience the spirits within.”
When you visit a winery or tasting room located in an historical building, be sure to ask about footsteps, doors slamming, lights flickering and other paranormal behavior. While the staff may not want to publicize the fact that there may be some type of ghostly hauntings, sometimes they will talk about it in whispers.
Read the review of Miles Wine Cellars on the Wine Trail Traveler site.
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