It has officially been one year since we’ve opened! What was once a dream, is now a reality. We started this winery because we wanted to support our community and our family. This winery is completely based on love, commitment, and family. When we bought this house and Matt said “one day we’ll have a…
Happy New Year Everyone! Now is the time to make those new year resolutions a success! Coming into our official first year of being open, we have some big plans here at Whitetail Vineyards and Winery. Here are just some bullet points and I will explain in detail in the paragraphs below: We are so…
Hello Everyone! We apologize that we have been on hiatus for a little bit. We’ve been very busy here at Whitetail Vineyards and Winery! We wanted to announce that we have a new addition!!! … and no, it’s not a new wine… yet. We welcomed on September 20th at 5:22am our second daughter and fourth…
It’s been a full year since we planted our first round of vines and nearly every vine had survived the winter. Spring was in full force and our vines were doing well, but now it was time to take some of the profit and expand the vineyard. We added an additional 5 rows to the…
The man, the myth, the legend. We owe alot to our dads. Whether they are full time working dads, stay at home dads, step dads, dads overseas, dads in heaven, or many more. Dads play a huge role in our lives, but too often we see the role of dad being downplayed in the media…
Here’s to our Moms… Having a mom and being a mom is the most wonderful thing in life. I didn’t realize the amount of love a mom has for her child until I became a mom myself. Moms have a bond with their child once they see those 2 blue lines on a pregnancy test.…
Acid is the most important thing in wine. Period. You may notice that our wines have more brightness on the palate than other wines in the area. Some Northeast Pennsylvania winemakers will dump copious amounts of cane sugar (sucrose) into their wine in an attempt to mask the tartness that acid brings. Unfortunately, this method masks…
The labeling process… was a lot more involved than you could imagine! We finally announced our winery and launched our website thinking our labels would be printed within a few days. We waited patiently for our labels to be approved and printed. In order for us to label our wine, we have to get each…
Today was the day we’ve been waiting for, for years. Matt and I were finally going to bottle our first wine! The shirts were made, the wine was ready, the equipment was set up, now all we needed was some people to help us! The team included Matthew, Karen O’Connell, Jennifer Iovino, and myself. We…
It’s approaching the middle of November, and most of our juice is finally here. The barrels were stored inside for about two days to allow the juice to acclimate and warm up enough for the yeast to be effective. In that short time, our Riesling barrel decided to start a natural fermentation cycle. Not exactly…
The day has arrived! Our first juice delivery as an officially licensed winery, and OH BOY was it one to remember… Our first run of juice comes from Mazza Vineyards, the largest producing winery in Pennsylvania. The order consisted of all the varietals that make up our Essentials Collection. Catawba, DeChaunac, Landot Noir, Riesling, Traminette,…
With the vines in the ground and all of our business paperwork put together, it was time to apply for our state license. A process that started in May, and wouldn’t end until September… Just after getting the vines in the ground, in the middle of May, we applied for the state winery license. We…
It was now June. The vines were pushing their first few buds, with the Marquette taking off exceptionally well. Things were going well, that is until we realized we were in the midst of a drought. When we first planted the vines, we had used garden hoses to water each individual plant when needed, but…
What an exciting thing! The vines are in the ground. The outside is looking more and more beautiful every day. Now it’s time to focus on the inside. We did some quick preparations before our delivery from The Vintner’s Vault would come. Matt built a nice lab area using Hickory cabinets and Emerald Granite provided…
In spring of 2023 we had two young boys and a baby on the way. The pressure was on. We got a late start on the excavation, had over 70 posts to set, and the vines were coming in a week… and they were calling for rain all week. I was four months pregnant and…
We bought our house in the Spring of 2018. A small, modest house in need of a lot of TLC. At this time I was 7 months pregnant with our first born, Declan. It wasn’t much on the outside and not any better on the inside. In order to make it our dream home it…
