| We have been incorporated since 1999 when we began planting our own vineyard in Mt. Pleasant Township. We have been home wine-makers for many years. We first learned the art of winemaking from our parents, who had learned from their parents through the immigration to the United States and back through lost centuries in the Provinces of Umbria and Marche in modern Italy. In another year, or so, we will have our first harvest of locally grown grapes. It takes about three years for new vines to mature enough to actually bear fruit in usable quantities. We are in the third of a five year build-up plan that ultimately and hopefully will yield grapes in sufficient quantities to yield about 1,000 gallons. Our effort is divided between red and white varieties. Our signature wine will be Traminette which is a clone of Gerwurztraminer that bears close characteristics to the parent vines.
Our secondary wine will feature Cabernet Franc, a grape closely related to Cabernet Sauvignon, the king of hearty reds. In actual fact the northeastern states yield of Cabernet Franc is usually tastier and more full-bodied than the same variety grown in the famous wine valleys of California.
Our vineyard is in Wayne County while we maintain offices in our home, in Lackawanna County. We are the northernmost vineyard in the Commonwealth. Our nearest wine-producing neighbors are in Old Forge and to the east of the Pocono Mountains. We are members of the Pennsylvania Wine Association and the Southeast Growers Association.
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