Deer Run Winery Claimed

Deer Run Winery is a family owned farm winery whose humble beginnings grew from one man’s love of making wine. Wine making has long been a passion of owner, George Kuyon, who built Deer Run Winery in 2003 on a 20 acre parcel of farmland after retirement from Kodak. Upon hearing the news that his father was planning to open a winery, his son, Scott, who was working as a marine mechanic in Florida at the time, decided to move home & help his Father fulfill his dream. ​Over a decade later, Deer Run has established itself as an award-winning winery at the north end of Conesus Lake that is here to stay. WHAT WE DO Deer Run Winery grows about 30 percent of the grapes used to make our wines, the remainder of the grapes needed are purchased from other Finger Lakes vineyards. In our 5 acre vineyard we grow Vidal, Valvin Muscat, Noiret, Corot Noir, Traminette, Marechal Foch & Frontenac varieties. In the winter months while the vines are dormant each of the vines are hand pruned by Scott (and anyone else he can coax into helping him) and tied in early Spring before the vines begin to bud. Throughout the growing season, the vines are thinned so the energy from the vine goes into growing the grapes, not into growing the leaves. Shoot thinning also helps to allow the sunlight to penetrate the canopy which will help keep the grapes dry and free from mildew. When Fall arrives we test the sugar and acid levels of the grapes and wait for optimum sugar percentages before we harvest. Row after row, we snip the grape bunches from the vines and we abide by two simple rules: don’t cut your own fingers & don’t cut your neighbor’s fingers! Once a variety is picked, we bring the filled pick bins to the “press pad”. This is where we record the weight of the grapes before they meet their fate at the crusher de-stemmer!