Winter’s Hill Vineyard
Welcome to Winter’s Hill Vineyard. Winter’s Hill Vineyard began when Peter and Emily Gladhart planted 20 acres of vines in 1990. 35 acres of Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, and Pinot Blanc now provide virtually all of the grapes used to make Winter’s Hill wines.
Peter manages the vineyard along with a team of six long-term employees who perform the multitude of tasks necessary to produce exceptional fruit. All of the pruning, training, shoot thinning, crop reduction, and multiple passes of tucking are done by hand. Harvest is also done by hand, using small clippers and five gallon buckets. This means that each of our more than 42,000 plants is touched by a human hand more than 10 times a year. Two tractors are used for cultivation, mowing, spraying, hedging, and transporting the harvested grapes to the winery. A total of ??? hours of tractor usage per year gives you lots of time to think. The original 25 hp John Deere tractor we purchased in 1990 is still working hard every week.
