Victory View Vineyard

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We – Mary and Gerry Barnhart – share many passions. We both have a passion for family life, healthy living, good food, history, and a rural way of life. We grew up in the rural Catskill Mountains, went to colleges in New York State, and eventually had careers in public service. Gerry was the Director of New York State’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources. Mary was a public school elementary teacher. So add enjoyment of the great outdoors and education to our list of passions.

After raising three kids in North Easton and upon retirement Gerry’s vision was to “keep our farm in agriculture” and attract wildlife. So he planted some hybrid test vines and built some wetlands. The vines survived winter, the wine was very good, and the wetlands attracted wood ducks, mallards, green-wing teal, and hooded merganser. Eventually, Gerry’s vision morphed into commercially selling wine from the hybrid vines developed by the University of Minnesota and Cornell. So he came up with a business plan to establish a farm winery with local history and rural life as the backdrop.

Today Victory View Vineyard is the end result of a new passion: growing grapes and making wine. It’s a family affair. We keep the vineyard in shape and the grapes healthy. The kids, now in their thirties, come home to help with planting, building trellis, pruning, bottling and harvesting. Gerry’s brother and Mary’s sister and more family members, neighbors, friends come to help at harvest. This website was built by our son. Life is good.

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