I started making wines about 17 years ago, when my wife, Deanna, gave me a wine making kit for Christmas. It was just a plastic bucket and a 6-gallon glass carboy. My first attempt was a raspberry wine, which turned out to be undrinkable. I was intrigued to find out why. I began doing a lot of research and buying testing equipment. My wines started to improve at this point. Then, my wife bought me a grape press for another Christmas gift, and so my endeavor into grape wines started. I was learning as much as I could about cold hardy grapes and trying to improve on them every year. I entered my wines into the biggest amateur wine making contest in the world. I started winning golds and silvers. From this point on, it's taken a course of its own. It has been a lot of hard work and long days, but I couldn't have done it without the help and support of my family.

Thank You

Jim Truehart