MILLBROOK VINEYARDS & WINERY

MILLBROOK VINEYARDS & WINERY is pleased to be releasing our 25th Anniversary wines this year. The 2010 growing season has been described as one of the finest in decades and we couldn’t be happier with the quality of wines that will be released over the next several months.

The winery was founded in 1981 by John S. Dyson, former Deputy Mayor for Economic Development in New York City, as well as former New York State Commissioner of Commerce and Agriculture. It was the first vineyard in the Hudson River Region of New York dedicated exclusively to the production of vinifera grapes. Dyson started growing grapes by planting an experimental acre of vinifera grapes at his family farm in Millbrook. In 1979, he purchased a former dairy farm and converted the 1940s-era barn into an efficiently designed modern winery. Millbrook Winery’s first commercial vintage was in 1985 and today it produces over 12,000 cases of wine a year.

Of the estate’s 130 acres, 30 are now planted with grapes. Approximately half of the vineyard is planted with Chardonnay, and the remainder consists of Tocai Friulano, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet Franc. Some of Millbrook’s most highly regarded wines include the New York State appellation and the Proprietor’s Special Reserve versions of Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, and Pinot Noir. When the growing season allows, Millbrook also produces three vineyard designate wines in very limited quantities – our Block Two West Chardonnay, Block Five East Pinot Noir and Block Three East Cabernet Franc.

Millbrook Winery is located in a renovated Dutch hip dairy barn that has a magnificent view of the vineyards, Catskill Mountains, and rolling hills of Dutchess County. Millbrook stays true to its goal of producing wines of the highest caliber by uniting state-of-the-art viticulture with classical French and Italian winemaking techniques including barrel aging and malolactic fermentation.

Essential to the Millbrook Wine Experience is an informative and enriching guided tour of the winery, which will leave you with an insider’s view of the entire winemaking process, from the careful tending of the vineyards to the winemaker’s art of vinification. Each tour is capped off with a complete and informative tasting of current vintage Millbrook wines.

We were very happy to learn that our vineyard designate 2008 Block Two West Chardonnay and 2008 Block Five East Pinot Noir were selected as the Hudson Valley’s Best White and Red wines in The New York Cork Report 2010 Wines of the Year.

All of our 2010 wines with our new commemorative 25th Anniversary labels.

This release will mark the fourth vintage of our Unoaked Chardonnay. We started with a relatively small production as we were not sure of the demand. The response has been overwhelmingly positive as each vintage has quickly sold out. We are now up to bottling over 500 cases!