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Quick
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| Hours: Open
daily except for Tuesdays: 12 - 5 pm. Tours on Sundays or by
appointment for groups only.
Directions: From
Interstate Rte. 295 north or south take Exit 11. Proceed north
on Rte. 114 (Diamond Hill Rd.) 2 miles to stone gates a sign on
east side of the road. |
Come spend some time at the tasting room, gift shop and private
grounds of this 200 year old vineyard house, surrounded by vineyards
and orchards. Taste the wines and perhaps enjoy a picnic lunch.
Background
The Bernston family planted their first vines on this 33 acre
vineyard in 1976, with 5 acres of pinot noir now growing. Fruit
orchards are also being added for a total of 15 acres under
cultivation.
No herbicide, insecticide or chemical fertilizer is used and proper
attention is paid to low yield and vinification in the ancient
tradition with aging in French oak barrels. No filtration or fining is
ever used on the red wines from pinot noir. Because fine pinot noir
requires long aging, the Berstons decided to revive the old New
England tradition of making wine from New England fruits such as
apples, peaches and blueberries, which when updated to modern
equipment and techniques, produces the complex table wines and fruity
and delicious peach and berry wines that are rapidly becoming true New
England classics.
Blackstone Valley Visitor
Center, On the banks of the Blackstone, 175 Main Street, Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02860