| Category | Wineries |
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| Created | 08.25.09 | ||||
| Added by | VineyardBrokers | ||||
| Property Title: | Haight-Brown Vineyards | ||||
| Property is: | For Sale | ||||
| Property Size: | 9+ acres (+++++leased land) | ||||
| Property Description: | Haight Vineyard was the first to successfully plant the fine wine grape family Vitis Vinifera in Connecticut, and the first to establish a licensed winery in the state. The history of Haight Vineyard is one of courage and innovation; of succeeding where others had failed. Haight Vineyard’s original winery, completed in 1978, was outgrown and replaced by the handsome new Tudor winery on Chestnut Hill in 1984, seven hundred yards away from its predecessor. The present day winery was designed by Dr. Richard Vine, winemaker, author, and now retired professor of enology at Purdue University. It followed that Haight Vineyard would bring back to the State the first gold and silver medals won by a Connecticut winery in national competition at ‘Winery’s Unlimited’ in 1979. After an initial period of skepticism of Connecticut’s viability as an originator of fine wines, Haight Vineyard was discovered by the residents of and visitors to Northwestern Connecticut in the early 1980’s. The salesroom began to fill and the inventory began to shrink. With Haight Vineyard growing many of the fine wine grapes such as Chardonnay, Riesling, and Merlot it was becoming clear that wine produced in Connecticut could compete on a quality basis with those from the rest of the world. One of the hallmarks of the success of Haight Vineyard has been a pragmatic realization that the terroir which could support the growing of fine wine grapes in this area was few and far between. With the knowledge of the fact that growing fine wine grapes on large swaths of acreage and contiguous parcels of land is not a reality in cold country viticulture the vineyard adopted what proved to be one of their most defining practices, that of planting and growing these varietals on only the most desirable tracts of land, may of which are not ‘vineyard owned’. To this day many of Haight Vineyards grapes are grown on adjacent and nearby land that is either in Land Trust or being farmed in a symbiotic relationship under Act 490, which gives the land owner tax relief for having their excess acreage farmed by the vineyard. |
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| Asking: | $1,575,000 | ||||
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| Street Address | Chestnut Hill | ||||
| City | Litchfield | ||||
| County | Litchfield | ||||
| State/Prov. | Connecticut | ||||
| Postal Code | 06759 | ||||
| Country | United States | ||||
| Contact Information: | |||||
| Name | Sean Michael Aikman, Broker/Associate, Sotheby's International Realy | ||||
| Phone Number | 860.777.7434 | ||||
| Website: | Sean Aikman | ||||
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