https://www.pennlive.com/food/2024/11/central-pa-estate-producer-adds-saperavi-gruner-to-acres-of-vines-it-sources-for-its-wines.html

The 2024 growing season is complete for wineries in Pennsylvania and around the East Coast.

For many, that means fermenting and then bottling the 2024 vintage while getting ready for the busy holiday season in the tasting room.

Those with vineyards, such as Shade Mountain Winery in Middleburg, Snyder County, are already starting to prepare for the next growing season, either cleaning up under the vines or pruning branches to improve the plant’s health, shape and productivity.

At a time when many wineries are sourcing grapes or juice from elsewhere, even as far away as the West Coast where a large surplus exists, producers such as Shade Mountain remain as an example albeit diminishing in number, of an estate winery.