Did you know?:

Stoney Ridge Winery opened in May of 2002. It is a family-run business.

Stoney Ridge Winery has 11 acres of grapes, which is over 6,000 vines. We have over 18 different varietals including seedless grapes.

As of October 1st 2009, Ohio has 109 wineries.

Ohio has more than 2,200 acres of vineyards.

There are approximately 20 million acres of grapes planted worldwide.

An average acre of grapes produces 1.5 to 4.0 tons of grapes.

It takes about 2.5 to 3.0 pounds of grapes to produce one bottle of wine.

It takes 12 to 14 pounds of grapes to make a gallon of "finished" wine.

One ton of grapes will produce 170 gallons of "finished" wine.

Viticulture: The science and practice of grape growing.

Enology: The science and practice of making wine.

Today, Ohio winemakers grow and produce more sophisticated European varietals from very dry to semi-sweet to meet higher expectations of modern consumers.

In 1859, Ohio was the leading producer of wine. Nicholas Longworth - a pioneer in the Ohio commercial wine industry was credited with planting more than 3,000 acres of Catawba grapes along the Ohio river between Cincinnati and Ripley, Ohio. (For more information on the history of Ohio's wine industry, go to http://www.tasteohiowines.com/education.php - Ohio Wines 101)

Quotes:

"A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world."
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

"If penicillin can cure those who are ill, wine can bring the dead back to life."
- Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)

"Wine is bottled poetry."
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

"Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul."
- Horus (65-8 B.C.)

"A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine."
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

"Never apologize for, or be ashamed of, your own taste in wine. Preferences for wines vary just as much as those for art or music."
- Hubrecht Duijker (1942- )

"One not only drinks wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and - one talks about it."
- Edward VII (1841-1910)

"One barrel of wine can work more miracles than a church full of saints."
- Italian proverb

"The soft extractive note of an aged cork being withdrawn has the true sound of a man opening his heart."
- William Samuel Benwell

"Wine is sunlight, held together by water."
- Galileo (1564-1642)

"Wine...the blood of grapes."
- Genesis 29:11

"Wine maketh glad the heart of men,..."
- Psalm 104:15

"Wine was created from the beginning to make men joyful, and not to make them drunk."
- Ecclesiasticus 31

"Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)