The old adage “try before you buy” proves exceedingly useful when shopping for wine, cars, or medical licenses. Sample a scenic vineyard with today’s Groupon: for $24, you get a winery outing for four at Old Firehouse Winery in Geneva (a $49 value). The outing includes:

• Four wine glasses
• One meat and cheese tray
• Four imprinted corkscrews<p>

For an additional $1, groups may purchase four tasting trays that each contain 10 wine samples.

Old Firehouse Winery ferments more than 20 full-flavored vinos along the glistening shores of Lake Erie. Nibbles from a meat and cheese tray stave off hunger as quartets shift gazes from shelves of glossy wine bottles to the gently lapping lake. Visitors can opt to purchase either sweet or premium wine tastings ($1 for four tasting trays), which each include 10 samples of single-grape and blended varietals. After sampling the full range of sweet and juicy concords to dry and full-bodied chambourcins, visitors can imagine how each exquisite vintage would look inside their long-stemmed souvenir wine glass and how advantageous the imprinted corkscrews would be during a close-range jousting match. In the summer months, patrons can swill, sniff, and sip from a perch on the outdoor tasting patio and supplement the winery outing with a ride on a historical ferris wheel.