Apollo's Praise
Kelby & Julia Russell, Finger Lakes wines, the only East Coast producer
Apollo's Praise is a wine producer in New York, United States. LeMieux Wine Co. distributes Apollo's Praise wines to licensed restaurants, bars and retailers in Michigan.
The Outlier
Apollo's Praise is the only East Coast producer in the LeMieux portfolio. Kelby and Julia Russell work the Finger Lakes region of New York, a place where deep glacial lakes moderate the climate and shale-and-slate soils give the wines a mineral signature that has nothing in common with anything growing on the West Coast. Including them is a deliberate bet that serious, terroir-driven wine in America isn't limited to California and Oregon.
Wines
Finger Lakes wines built around the region's actual strengths, not trying to be California, not apologizing for being New York. The lake effect creates a microclimate that extends the growing season, and the ancient slate deposits give the wines a lean, mineral backbone. The portfolio's geographic reach starts and ends with this entry, and the argument it makes is worth the reach.
At a glance
- Home
- Rock Stream, Seneca Lake, Finger Lakes
- Grapes
- Dry Riesling, Gamay Noir, Cabernet Franc
- The name
- Apollo, god of music and the sun
- The people
- Kelby James Russell and Julia Hoyle
- The vineyard
- Lahoma, farmed block by block
Wines in our book
- Cabernet Franc – Lahoma Vineyard, 2024Red · Seneca Lake · Cabernet franc
- Cabernet Franc ‘Picardie’, 2025Red · Seneca Lake · Cabernet franc
- Chardonnay – Lahoma Vineyard, 2024White · Seneca Lake · Chardonnay
- Dry Rosé of Cabernet Franc – Nutt Road Vineyard, 2025Rose · Seneca Lake · Cabernet franc
- Gamay Noir – The Bridge, Lahoma Vineyard, 2024Red · Seneca Lake · Gamay Noir
- Grüner Veltliner – Lahoma Vineyard, 2024White · Seneca Lake · Grüner Veltliner
- Riesling Dry – Lahoma Vineyard, 2024White · Seneca Lake · Riesling
- Riesling Noble Select (Dry), 2024White · Seneca Lake · Riesling
- Riesling Noble Select – ‘The Knoll’, 2024White · Seneca Lake · Riesling
- Riesling – Lahoma Vineyard (Kabinett), 2025White · Seneca Lake · Riesling
- Riesling – Pentecostal Block (Dry), 2024White · Seneca Lake · Riesling
- Riesling – Pentecostal Block (Spätlese), 2024White · Seneca Lake · Riesling
- Scheurebe – Lahoma Vineyard, 2024White · Seneca Lake · Scheurebe
- ‘The Knoll’ Riesling – Lahoma Vineyard, 2024White · Seneca Lake · Riesling
- “Lovejoy” (Estate White Cuvée), 2024Sparkling · Seneca Lake · Chardonnay, Riesling, Grüner Veltliner
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