Join us in welcoming dear native grapes, a farm winery from the Catskills who will setup at the Featured Ferments table outside the Taproom for the afternoon and pour a range of their wines and co-fermentations. Furthermore, all weekend, our Taproom will feature several dear native grapes offerings on our menu all weekend!

Our latest Featured Ferments event at the Rose Hill Farm Winery/Cidery Taproom

In the mid-1800s, America had a blossoming wine industry. Native and hybrid grapes were praised by winegrowers for their extraordinary flavors and natural resilience. But then Prohibition swept through, and these valuable varieties fell by the wayside.

Located in the Catskill Mountains, dear native grapes, is a project dedicated to restoring America’s native and hybrid grapes. Our winegrowing methods are modeled after holistic and regenerative philosophies, applied both on the farm and in the cellar. dear native grapes, is a vineyard and winery run by husband and wife team Alfie Alcántara and Deanna Urciuoli.

dear native grapes, is more than a vineyard and winery run by husband and wife team Alfie Alcántara and Deanna Urciuoli. It’s a love letter to America’s beautifully diverse species of native grapes. We strive to reinvigorate a facet of American winemaking that’s been under our noses all along.

dear native grapes strives to reinvigorate a facet of American winemaking that’s been under our noses all along, primarily focused on:

• Pre-Prohibition varieties once widely planted across the U.S. like Delaware, Catawba and Isabella. We’re also working to find and propagate nearly-extinct heirloom varieties from New York’s Hudson Valley region.

• Contemporary hybrid varieties cultivated to survive harsh winters and ripen in short growing seasons. Minnesota wine grapes like Frontenac, Marquette and Itasca hold the keys to regenerative winegrowing in America.

• Experimental varieties from little-known North American native grape species like vitis aestivalis. We are working with grape breeders across the country who have dedicated their lives to exploring the untapped potential of America’s native grapes.

Dear Native Grapes is a love letter to America’s beautifully diverse species of native grapes.