Wh was it that mentioned Presque Isle?

That's the place. It's 45 minutes away from me. I took a little over 100 lbs of my white grapes there last year to be crushed, destemmed, and pressed. All that for $6. Pretty good deal. As far as being a winery that caters to on-site consumption, they are extremely small. I'd guess their main business is equipment and ingredients.

Yes, I have been therre. It is about 4.5 days from me. I live in Houston, Texas. I was visiting the area and stopped in and picked up a few things. A very strange place. A huge inventory. You can get things from them that you cannot easily find anywhere else. But they have no showroom. Just a small room with a counter. You need to pick out what you want from their catilogue and give them a list then the fill it. I also visited Walkers Fruit Basket and got several juices for wine making. They would not be too far from you (at least not compared to me) and they have good product.

Ray

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:08:54 GMT, "Ray Calvert" wrote: I thought it was you who talked about it. It is a weird place, I haven't been to many as I'm new to the hobby, but the showroom is small. I'd say tasting and cash register room is more like it. They must do one heckuva good internet business.

I'll have to look into Walker's Fruit Basket too, I think I've heard of it but can't remember from where...

Here are some pics if anyone is interested. A couple of shots of the stream outsider their place and one of the juice casks out back. I don't think the front one will come through, I tried to get it to work several times, but not much luck.

One of the owners of Presque Isle wines, Laurie Boettcher, is from my part of the country. Consequently, her brother has opened up a store here in Fargo. I've never been to the original location, but Mike Jore has a real nice shop downtown here. They are very active in education and supplying home winemakers as well as new and established wineries. They are trying to reach west to supply the upper midwest wineries with equipment and supplies. I don't know what their PA store looks like, but I know the folks are knowledgable and very helpful. They also provide good products at good prices.