Wine has been made for some 6,000-7,000 years and has been traced to a farming community in the Middle East in the area of present day Iran. It was there that the first evidence of the "vitus vinifera" grape was found and DNA analyses have shown that it is a close cousin to the Syrah grape variety of today. The process of making grape wine and blueberry wine, which is essentially the same, has not changed very much during the intervening millennia.

All our wines are handcrafted in small batches to assure the highest quality. All berries are picked by hand, lightly crushed and fermented with red wine yeast. Some of the wine is made in a nouveau style to accentuate the fruitiness of the wine, which becomes our New Blue. This product is picked in July, bottled in October and is ready for the November and December holidays. It is especially wonderful with roast turkey - " An American wine for an American tradition…Thanksgiving!"

A portion of the wine is pumped into American Oak barrels where it remains for five to six months. The oak softens the blueberry wine that is naturally high in tannins and acids. This dry wine is ready for sale the summer after it is picked and the winemaker considers it his Best Blue.

Our port style, or Bay Blue, blueberry wine is a delight. It is a mixture of one or two year old blueberry wine infused with grape brandy that has been aged in oak. This wine is sweetened to bring out the flavor of the blueberries and melds well with the higher alcohol content.

We also make several white grape wines made with Vinifera and French Hybrid grapes grown in the Finger Lakes, our Mountain Laurel White and our American Riesling.

Our Apple Wine is made from cider apples crushed in an Antique Cider Mill. This is a fruity, light apple wine with 10% alcohol by volume. Hard Cider was the drink of choice, or the only one affordable, in Colonial America. The only difference between Hard Cider and Apple Wine is the alcohol content. Anything greater than 8% is classified as a wine rather than a cider. We call our wine American Pie as in "As American as Apple Pie."

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AWARDS

Seyval/Vidal Blanc, Bronze Medal, American Wine Society Blueberry. Bronze Medal. American Wine Society

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Page last updated on 3/25/06