Brown's Orchards set to open winery

It sounds like York County's next winery is about to open.

What will be called Logan's View Winery should be opening in the next few weeks at Brown's Orchards & Farm Market in Loganville, Pa. According to a story on the farm market Web site from earlier this year, the tasting room and winery would be located on Yellow Church Road, just a few miles west of the highly successful market that pulls in customers from all over southern York County and Maryland.

That story also noted that seven acres of grapes were planted on Brown’s farm, just a half mile from the market, in April 2008. The winery was expected to begin by selling fruit wines and white varietals at Brown’s Farm Market in 2009, with red varietals to become available during the fall of 2010.

There's a pretty good chance that the UnCork York Wine Trail's next member will be this winery that opens near the farm market. Tamanend Winery in Lancaster recently became the 13th member of the wine trail.

Tamanend's boxed series at 40 pct. of sales

While Terrapin Station in Maryland's Cecil County has gotten most of the love on this blog for its boxed wines, it's not the only winery in the region that has gotten away from the bottle and cork.

Tamanend Winery is in its first year and located in Lancaster, near routes 72 and 741. It's selling its dry wines in a bottle and its sweeter wines, with just a couple of exceptions, in 1.5-liter and 3-liter bag in a box. There are two exceptions to this dry bottle and sweet bag universe: its Port-style and an off-dry Reisling (called Irresistible) that are both bottled.

Co-owner Richard Carey said by phone earlier Tuesday that the boxed wines have been a significant amount of the new winery's business, around 40 percent. They're also applied to the Liquor Control Board to sell the boxed wines in Pennsylvania's state stores. A response to that application is still pending.

At some point, Carey said, they'll look at the numbers entering the winery and make a decision about extending their hours, which run from noon to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays. "This being our first year in this location where we're open to the consuming public, we don't know exactly what this drill is going to be," Carey said, noting that "from a business standpoint we're accelerating rapidly so we know there are thing in store. We just don't know what it is yet."

Off their Web site, it appears they could get help from associations with two trails. They note that they have just become a member of Uncork York, which recently completed a highly successful fourth installment of Tours de Tanks. Members of Uncork run from east of the Susquehanna River to west of Gettysburg. The site also indicated that Carey and partner Linda Jones McKee are working with other wineries in and around Lancaster to form a Red Rose Wine Trail. Details on both no doubt will be forthcoming in the next few months.