Our grapes are of French origination and are grown in Ohio clay on European trellising structures. Picked when their flavors say they are ready, the juice from the grapes are processed as they were hundreds of years ago. We use old-fashioned, expensive French and Hungarian Oak barrels for SUR-LEE aging and do minimal filtering. Most of our wines are bottle aged for at least a year, and we maintain a library of our older wines for members and for tracking our cellar worthy wines and assess their quality, which is reported periodically to our exclusive membership. We bottle our wines and use Category 6 quality corks produced in patented, proprietary German processes. We use genuine corks to close our bottles, exclusively. Our vineyard is naturally fertilized by sheep, chickens, steers and several wild animals. Our wines tend to be patterned after Bourgogne, Bordeaux and Alsatian styles. We offer wines which can hold their own against traditional European wines and often are equal or exceed the highest quality of similar styles from France.
