Pheasant Ridge Vineyards

Pheasant Ridge Vineyards
3456 Ranson Road
Jamesville, New York
USA 13078
Phone: (315) 469-4346
http://www.pheasantridgevineyards.com/

Contact: Kent Wells

Our winery has grown out of many years of experience of making wines for our families. Both John Sustare and Kent Wells have produced grape and fruit wines over the past 30 years for family consumption.

Winter protection of our plants is required for some varieties of grapes we grow here at Pheasant Ridge Vineyards. In the winter of 2003-2004 the fall season was in the normal too just below normal in temperature range. When December got here the daily high temperature was 30 degrees above normal. I was out pruning on January 4th in shirt sleeves; it was 64 degrees. As I pruned I noticed that the plants were getting sappy from the abnormal temperatures for this time of year. The following day the temperature dropped to 17 degrees below zero. That was an 81 degree drop in a 24 hour period. We lost a lot of our plants, some did recover but we knew that we needed to do something to insure against these harsh temperature swings.

Winemaker: John Sustare

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