Our estate vineyard consists of nearly six acres, carefully sited on our historic fifty-five acre farm property. We’ve chosen six exceptional wine grape varieties, well-suited to our terrain and climate, to patiently nurture to fruitful maturity in our Canton, Ohio vineyard.
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Our varietals, clockwise from top:
Marquette, Frontenac Gris, Arandell, Petite Pearl, Aromella.
Center: Vignoles
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The North Vineyard
Entering our property from the front gate, you’ll see our
picturesque North Vineyard on your left, situated on the west shore of
spring-fed Lake Gervasi.
A stunning backdrop for lakeside and Pavilion weddings and
events, and the site of our popular seasonal Vineyard Dinners, the North
Vineyard was planted in 2009 and 2010, with a limited first harvest in 2012.
In the North Vineyard we grow Marquette (a grandson of Pinot
noir), which bears a dark purple grape producing a ruby-colored wine, and the
intriguing Frontenac Gris, lovely bronze-hued clusters which produce a lively,
aromatic white wine.
The South Vineyard
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| Petite Pearl grapes, August 2013 |
Just past our orchard and along the roadway to Gervasi
Village and the Crush House, our South Vineyard arises from a wooded creek bed
on a sunny east-facing slope.
Planted in 2010 and 2011, here we are nurturing our newest
varietals: Aromella (an apricot-hued aromatic white), Vignoles (a late harvest
white), Arandell (a Cornell-bred dark purple grape with dark berry aromatics),
and Petite Pearl (a late harvest red, producing a dark garnet wine.)
From the balcony of our newly-opened Crush House eatery, you
can enjoy a panoramic vista of the South Vineyard and surrounding landscape,
and watch us nurture a young vineyard into fruitful production.
Meticulous Care
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| Marquette tendril, May 2012 |
During their formative years, our vines require meticulous
hands-on attention.
Our work in the vineyard is to channel the grape vine's
rampant growth tendencies into a uniform, consistent trellis structure. We also
limit the grape crop severely, to channel the plant's energy into healthy roots
and trunks. Because we are growing wine grapes, we want the highest quality,
most flavorful fruit, so each year we limit the crop to produce the quality our
hand crafted wines require.
Terroir
No matter how carefully the vines are tended, however, the
grapes grown must be suited to the unique characteristics of the vineyard
terrain from which they arise. That's a concept the French call terroir, the
particular qualities of geography, geology and climate, that interact with the
vine's genetics, to produce a grape and eventually a wine that reflect the
"sense of the place" of a particular vineyard.
We can't help but think that somehow the particular beauty
of this old farm, with its spring fed lake and pebbly vineyard hills of loamy
soils formed by glacial outwash, will produce exceptional wines from the six
grape varieties we've carefully selected and lovingly tended.
In the coming years, as each variety in our estate vineyard
matures to offer its distinctive fruit, we look forward to exquisite additions
to our portfolio of singular wines.
