Our Wines

Joey Ray’s first wine release is an exquisite Traminette wine, aged in a traditional terracotta amphora, offering a captivating sensory experience. The complex nose is greeted with vibrant aromas of fresh apples, evoking the essence of an orchard in full bloom, and a uniqueness of crushed stone and clay that illustrates its aging in the oldest wine ageing vessel known to mankind.  On the palate, a refreshing crispness is beautifully complemented by a pronounced minerality, adding depth and complexity. This wine embodies a harmonious balance between bright fruitiness and earthy undertones.

Varietal: 100% Traminette

Cooperage: Terracotta amphora

Harvest date(s): Various Dates in August and September 2023

Bottled on: July 16th, 2024

Release date: November 20. 2024

Number of Bottles: 1100

This crisp and elegant Rosé wine is layered with enticing aromas of strawberry, melon, white flowers and citrus. The palate is tantalized by pink grapefruit, minerals and strawberry ending with a lip smacking and crisp finish. This is a very enjoyable wine alone and pairs well with goat cheese, salads with vinaigrettes, Italian food, shellfish, roasted vegetables, fruit salad or a bad day. This wine should be consumed within the next four to five years to savor the balance of fruit and acidity. 

Varietal:  60% Chambourcin, 25% Traminette, 15% Vidal Blanc

Harvested: Various days in August and September 2024
 
Bottled: December 14, 2024
 
Released On: January 3, 2025
 
Number of Bottles Produced: 10,128
 
Cooperage:  Stainless Steel

Devil’s Hill derives its name from the devilishly difficult hillside where we grow varieties that are included in this wine. This hill at 1024 feet above sea level, is situated on a beautiful south-facing slope at a 27.6° angle, which makes for very difficult farming and harvesting. Because of the hill’s incline and the underlying quartzite granite and quartz schist along with decades of erosion it causes these vines to dig very deeply with slow progress to establish themselves. The first harvest was not for six years after the original planting.

You will pick up the alluring minerality, an almost crushed stone, and a flinty aspect on the nose and palate. This wine has a rustic quality imparting enchanting aromatics and flavors of dark cherry, shortbread cookie, spice, forest floor, crushed stone, and overtones of shaved dark chocolate. The mouthfeel is vibrant but lush with a long lingering finish and grippy tannins.

Varietal:  Red Blend- 56% Merlot, 31% Cynthiana, 13% Petit Verdot

Harvested: September 7 and 21, 2022

Bottled: April 26, 2023

Released On: May 24, 2023

Number of Bottles Produced: 5,544

Cooperage:  76% Once and Twice Used French Oak and 24% New American Oak