Wine online - your complete source.  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 the “soon-to-be-named” white to be released in the summer of 2003.  Steuben is a beautiful pink grape that produces the Autumn Blush.  Foch and Chancellor are highly-colored red grapes used in our Harvest Red and Vidal Blanc is a white grape that we bottle varietally. (insert picture of red grapes and white grapes)

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. 

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.  

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.

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. 

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.