Finger Lakes Wine and Cheese

I am beginning to think that the widening of my wine palate is beginning to affect my taste for other foods that were always on my avoidance list. One in particular was my total disdain for Feta cheese and also for Goat cheese.
This past autumn Shirley, Pam and I did a cheese tour of farms on the Finger Lakes.  One farm in particular was not one I really desired to visit. They made 'Goat Cheese," one of  the most disgusting cheeses I have ever tasted. While there Pam insisted that I try a Feta cheese. Feta is just below Limburger as far as one of the most disgusting cheeses ever made. At least that is how I saw it.  I did taste the Feta and was mildly surprised at the sharp but soft flavor. Nothing like any Goat cheese I have ever tasted.

More impressive was the farm with its variety of goats, which all have names and are members of the family.  You can visit the farm with the kids and let them pet the animals. The farm is the Lively Run Goat Dairy.
One of the first commercial goat dairy operations in New York State, beginning production in 1982 and located in Interlaken. Chevre, made in the traditional French style, Feta, and a goat blue cheese are available and all varieties were excellent.
Tonight I was a tad hungry when arriving home from work and the little bit of Feta that was left looked appetizing enough to satisfy the hunger.  I just need to open a nice wine and sitting on the table was a 2007 Cabernet Franc I picked up yesterday at a local Mom and Pop liquor store. The wine was also from the Finger Lakes and the Rooster Hill Vineyards located on Keuka Lake in Finger Lakes Wine Country.
Very cherry aromas with a little damp forest soil and some tobacco and even a little musk were somewhat suspect at first, but the more evident cherry aromas were alluring.  In the mouth, lots of fruity black cherry, some oak with soft tannins with a nice long dry finish.
I really loved this wine.  Finished the bottle in one night.  Something I don't usually do, but along with the Feta cheese, I just could not stop. When you are a novice in wine appreciation and especially in pairing wine and food, you kinda bust a few buttons when you get one this right.
Great wine, great cheese!  Now, I'll just have to do it again, and soon!!