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 Located on a ridge overlooking Butternut Creek in Jamesville, NY, Pheasant Ridge Vineyards is dedicated to hand making premium wines in the tradition of the small farm wineries of Alsace and the Rhine river valley. Our wines are specially crafted to be taken with food and good company.
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.
 Kent got his first taste of wine making in the high country of southeast Arizona, both making wine from grapes grown in the Sonoita Vineyards and growing grapes in the Mule Mountains of Cochise county between Tombstone and Bisbee. After moving to Central New York, Kent was not sure that wines like the ones he produced in Arizona could be made in Central New York. He was partially correct but wine growers (vignerons) in the Finger Lakes region convinced him that it was possible to make high quality wines in the area. There is a big difference in the Terrior of southeastern Arizona and Central New York and the wines produced in both areas are indicative of the climates and soils of the two areas. However, hot and cold climate Terriors can both produce excellent wines within the constraints of the Terrior. The dreaded "T-word"... Not only do grape have varietal characteristics but these characteristics are modified by the climate and soils where they are grown. We feel that wines should be judged not only on an absolute scale (world wide comparisons) but also by comparing wines grown on similar soils and climates throughout the world. One can sense the difference between wines grown in the high-latitudes (Bordeaux, Burgundy, Alsace, and New York) and those grown in the mid-latitudes (California, Chile, Australia, Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula). The growing of wine (one cannot separate the growing of grapes and the making of wine) is a complex and mutivaried process, but the enjoyment of wine is simple. Open the bottle and enjoy. No matter what the "experts" say the only criterion one needs is: Do you enjoy the wine? If you enjoy a particular wine, there is no other requirement, regardless of the pronouncements of the experts.
Come and visit us and enjoy the wines we are growing at Pheasant Ridge Vineyards. We invite you to come and taste our wines and tour the vineyards and winery on Sunday from 2 to 6 P.M. Since we are a small family winery, we are open for tasting and tours only on Sunday, however, if you give us a call at (315) 469-4346 we would be happy to arrange tastings at other times.
Wassail ! (Waes Hael !); Prost !; Skol !; A bonne Sante !; Slainte !; Salute !; L'Chaim!.....To Your Health !!!!
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