My name is Janie and I am the vineyard master.
We planted our fist trial grapes in the backyard but soon discovered that neither Niagara nor Catawba
and other American hybrids did well in the Alabama soil. The muscadines however grew healthy
and enchanted us with their resilliency to the summer heat. Soon we expanded our vineyard to the top of the hill and we started planting only muscadines.
The first fruits were sweet and we knew that by the following weekend they would be delicious,
only to discover that the racoons had also found them out. Not to despair we said.
" We will plant more than they can eat " and we did. Thus with four acres, we were in the business.
Hi, my name is Jahn. I am the wine master. When I immigrated from Switzerland in 1971 my family was sure I would
break the tradition of wine making that my grandfather had inherited from previous generations probably
going all the way back to the Romain empire. 
Here is a picture of our panel of testers in the old country.
Two forces propelled me to investigate winemaking in Alabama. One was the love of the country site in Duck Springs, the other one was the encouragement from my wife Janie wanting to return to her Stephens family's homestead to settle in our retirement years when it is too cold in Switzerland.