NASSAU VALLEY VINEYARDS
FIRST SUMMER SEASON 1994
24 YEARS AGO
Peggy Raley says she is
not A wine maker and technically she's not since her
Nassau Valley Vineyards and
Winery has yet to produce one bottle of wine on the
premises.
However, her high energy
and imagination have made a one-of-a-kind tourist
attraction for the Cape
Henlopen area that is gearing up for it's first summer season.
At this time there are
three acres of vineyards on the property, then in a renovated
old barn there are
stainless steel vats, waiting for this falls harvest. Visitors
will be able
to watch the processing
through glass windows from the second floor. Visitors will feel
of walking through a wine
cellar, reading history of wine's place in the Bible , medicine,
and in ancient Egypt,
Greece and Rome.
A display of brass
spigot's from the Gross Winery in Absecon, New Jersey , in
the late 1930's . The
floor boards are from the Rehoboth boardwalk, that was destroyed
in the 1992 noreaster. At
the end of the tour is the tasting room and retail store with the
wooden beamed ceiling.
Here are her wines, cabernet sauvignon and a blend called
Meadows Edge, which can be
purchased, along with a variety of wine glasses, and
other wine paraphernalia.
These wines have been produced by vinyards in Virginia
and Pennsylvania because
Ms Raley has not had a harvest large enough to produce her
own wines, but grapes from
her vineyards have been blended with those of the other
vineyards producing her
line.
Trendy upscale
restaurants of Rehoboth Beach serve her wines and managers say
they sell well and have a
good local following, especially the Meadow's Edge, a sweet
wine, good with spicy
foods.
Abstract by Harrison H.,
from The Easton Maryland, Star Democrat, Monday, June 6,
1994, by, Theresa Humphrey, Associated Press
writer.
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