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There
are almost 10 acres of vines planted at
Manatawny Creek Winery in 3 separate vineyards.
Vineyard 1, planted in 1991, contains about 5
acres of hybrid grapes.
Hybrids are crosses between Vinifera
(e.g. Chardonnay, Cabernet) and Native American
varieties (e.g. Niagara, Concord).
The 6 varieties in Vineyard 1 include
Foch, Chancellor, Steuben, Cayuga White, Vidal
Blanc and Seyval Blanc. The Seyval is used in our sparkling wine, Blanc de Blancs and is also blended with the Cayuga White to make our popular "Soleils Jumeaux" white wine.
Steuben is a beautiful pink grape that
produces the Autumn Blush wine. Foch and Chancellor are highly-colored red grapes used in our
Harvest Red and Vidal Blanc is a white grape
that we bottle varietally. |
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| In 1998 we planted
Vineyard 2 on top of the hill behind the winery. This is the vineyard we add vines to every year; it is
currently at about 5 acres and has the potential
to expand to about 10 acres (depending on how
hard we want to work!).
This vineyard contains mostly vinifera
vines including Chardonnay, Riesling,
Gewurtraminer, Pinot Gris, Cabernet Franc,
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir,
Lemberger and Syrah.
A hybrid called Chambourcin somehow snuck
its way into this vineyard as well.
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If you are standing on
the deck at the winery, you will see Vineyard 3, which
is a small “demonstration” vineyard.
This vineyard contains one row each of twelve
different varieties of grapes.
For a self-guided tour, follow the path across
the bridge and read the informative signs posted in
this vineyard. Come
in the fall and if the birds haven’t beat you to
them, you can taste the grapes off of these vines. |
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Speaking of birds, we
have a tremendous bird problem in our vineyards
– must be because of the wonderful-tasting
grapes produced on our red shale soil.
We need to net all of our vines with bird
netting or else those birds will eat every
single one of our grapes.
There are other
critters that bother our grapes including deer,
wild turkeys, and groundhogs.
Well, we figured out a way to combat
these animals and their names are Gabi and
Rufus. These
2 black beauties patrol the vineyards (okay,
they basically pee and shed their hair) to keep
the unwanted grape-destroyers away. |
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If interested in being on the volunteer picking
list, email or phone in your:
- Name,
- E-mail address,
- Phone number,
- Days of
the week you are available to pick, and
- Any lunch preferences (i.e. vegetarian).
Picking occurs from the last week in August until
the end of October and we ask for
volunteers on 4 days during that time
period.
Since we do not know when the
grapes will be ready, we email or call
people on our picking list only a few days
before the picking day.
We will make every attempt to
contact everyone on the list at least
once!
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