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None of our sweet wines have any added sugar to them, which is not typical in America. We captured all of the residual sugar in this wine by filtering the wine during fermentation to remove the yeasts.

This allows the natural sweetness of the wine grapes to provide clean, delicious sweetness up front, without a sugary aftertaste! All fruit, all of the time! Fermentation is done very cold which not only helps us maintain the sugar levels to exactly what we want by fermenting the juice very cold, but cold fermentation also helps capture the very fruity essences in the wine.

The resulting wine contains sweetness from fructose and not glucose, which helps us provide a much lower calorie wine for you. In , we sacrificed our small crop of Steuben to the birds. Works for me. The year was much different. A perfect spring with zero chance of a late frost allowed for a full crop across our entire vineyard.

It drifted into our vineyard and knocked out over half of our crop. Then at ripening the birds came. Family farmed since , our legacy and traditions have been passed down through the generations. We share a strong love for faith, family, friends and farming. With an agricultural history of tobacco, hogs, nursery, pumpkins, agrituourism and now vineyards, we are pleased to be able to offer you the fruits of our labor.

C, and about an hour south of downtown Baltimore. Our little town remains fairly rural and the country side drive to get to us can be a viewing pleasure at any time of year. We hope to see you soon.

A light bodied red wine blend from our Chambourcin and Vidal Blanc. A fun fruit forward wine with hints of strawberries and cherries. This is a sophisticated white wine from our estate Chardonel. The Chardonel is a hybrid vine created from the cross breeding of Chardonnay and Seyval Blanc. This vine presents in the wine just like a Chardonnay, but has the vigor from the Seyval Blanc that allows it to grow in our more southern humid climate.

However, that being said, wine is a very capital-intensive business, right? We had a few pretty ginormous issues: we didn't own a winery, we didn't own vineyards, we didn't know how to make wine. And, we didn't have any money to start a winery. We had this idea that we felt had legs and we felt that we were the people that were trying to do this. But we didn't necessarily have the experience or resources to launch into what is a very old boys club, right? We initially felt that becoming an importer of New Zealand wines was the least capital-intensive way and the lowest barrier to entry.

My background in electronics and the business I had been in before I was in charge of importing and exporting goods. I knew I could get anything around this globe. Then we did a little bit of deal-making with the wineries down in New Zealand. We brought in these beautiful wines and we had a lot of great success, which speaks a lot to the wines.

It also speaks to our tenacity because we really had no idea what we were doing. We just knew that there was an opportunity. I spent my days cold calling restaurants, wine buyers, wine directors — whoever the buyer was for restaurants, hotels, stores all up and down California — saying we have these beautiful and amazing wines that you are going to love.

I got hung up on a lot. I got yelled at a lot. What we didn't know was there's a way to go about this business, but we didn't know what we didn't know.

We were in the space and really advocating for products that we believed in. We kind of did everything the wrong way, but at the end of the day, it worked in our favor. We got into a lot of really prestigious accounts. What's behind these wines and what's behind these brands? We produce wines that can be found in retailers like Target and Whole Foods. People outside of what the standard has been, you know, older, white males, and here's a couple of brown women in this space, which is not typically seen as the standard for success.

But a few years later, here we are. Literally when we started, we could be at an industry event and we saw it: no people of color and very few women. They were out of proportion. When we launched that product, which is wine from New Zealand and wine from California, we dedicated each of the wines to each of our mothers.

At the same time that we launched the product, we launched the funds specifically dedicated to the professional advancement of women in wine and spirits.