The rule of thumb is FIVE glasses per bottle (but this does depend on the size of your wine glasses). Standard wine glasses hold about a 4- to 6-ounce serving.                                                                 

This question can be tricky, even if you know your friends’ preferences fairly well!  People who enjoy wine can drink a glass prior to dinner, and often another glass with dinner, maybe even two for a longer meal. So one-half of standard 750mL bottle per person is a reasonable rule of thumb.

Here’s a rough guide:

A tough question to answer precisely, because several factors influence how long wine will last:

• the wine’s sugar content (sweet wines last longer)
• the alcohol content of the wine (strong wines last longer)
• the quantity of wine left in the bottle (fuller bottles last longer)
• whether you use a wine pump (pumping removes air, lengthening the time shown above)

We grow 13 varieties of grapes, including Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay, Riesling, six French-American varieties and four native American varieties.

We were the first producers of genuine ice wine in the United States.  Our Vidal Blanc Ice Wine helped us achieve a national reputation and remains our signature wine.

We grow about 50 acres of grapes. We use about 70% of these grapes to produce our own wines, and sell the rest to other wineries and producers.

About 2½ lbs. of grapes (for a regular 750mL bottle).

We produce about 11,000 cases (approx. 130,000 bottles) of wine annually.

Art & Joyce Hunt received their farm winery license in 1981 and released their first vintage in 1982. We are celebrating our 30th Anniversary in 2011!

We normally start harvesting in mid-September and finish by late October.  We do not pick every day in this period; we choose the best moment for each variety. 

Grapes destined for Late Harvest wines are normally picked in late October to early November after experiencing a couple of light frosts. Those for Ice Wine are left to freeze on the vine and are picked by hand at 10-15 degrees Fahrenheit, usually in late November or December.

We bottle the vast majority of our wines in spring and summer.  We bottle only occasionally in winter and very rarely in fall, as we are extremely busy with harvest.   

The answer is both! We pick more than half of our grapes with a 1973 vintage harvester and a 4-man crew. Our native European grapes (e.g. Riesling, Chardonnay and Cabernet Franc) are picked by hand.  Our Vidal Blanc Ice Wine grapes are also picked by hand, in early winter, at 10-15 degrees, with gloved hands and cold fingers!

Our Vidal Blanc Ice Wine is an intensely sweet wine of great complexity, with apricot and honey aromas. The perception of sweetness depends not only on the amount of sugar in the wine, but also on the level of natural acidity, the amount of alcohol, the types of flavors, and on the nature of food consumed before or with the wine. It also depends on our expectations. Strawberry preserves are about 60% sugar, more than twice as sweet as Ice Wine, but the natural sweetness is balanced by tartness.  It tastes as we expect...we just enjoy it. So it is with our Vidal Blanc Ice Wine, once you know its luscious sweetness and exotic flavors!

The 1.5-liter bottles we use for Foxy Lady wines are too susceptible to breakage to ship them via UPS or FedEx.  For that reason, we ship Foxy Lady wines only in the 750mL size.