Other locations that you will find our wines:
Ayotte's
Hudson NH,
The Beer Store NH
Nashua, NH
Harvest Market
Hollis and Bedford ,
Philbrick's Fresh Market
Portsmouth
Ingenuity Country Store
in Keene!

The Vineyard
A family tradition has made its way into your hands.

Our Signature Blends
Cenare, Mirabella and Vivace
' Blends of bold taste and smooth mouth feel'

A special blend of grapes have come together. These wines will cellar easily for several or more years. And as they age, the complexity of tastes and aromas will come more to the forefront and grow in intensity. This is a call to make sure you put some aside for your future enjoyment!. These blends are something that I have worked on for quite some time and are probably unlike anything most people have ever tasted. Whether poured straight from the bottle or decanted, the taste and aroma is unbelievable.Silky, velvetyand vanilla smooth is the Mirabella, bright, lively and spiritedis the Vivace and the king, our Cenare, is meant for all the important times in your life, your dinners, both big and small, from the very intimate dinner to your most formal banquet. The flavors are all full ofspices, sweet black cherries, currants, a hint of chocolate and even orange peel.Notes of leather and dried fruits just explode and cover the entire mouth. Even without aging these wines achieve a unique ability .These are all meant to be a ‘before dinner wine’, ‘a during dinner wine’ and yet still be wonderful asan ‘after dinner wine'.

They will have no restrictions! Pare them with all kinds of foods or enjoy them alone. And that makes theses wine a ‘food’ all by themselves, and more attractive to more types of people and their tastes. You may laugh, but I like to sip them through the day.

- Al Fulchino

Production will be limited to a set number of cases each year. You may wish to reserve yours today. Everything is done by hand, including the bottling, corking and labeling, the intent was to make a wine that everyone would really enjoy, especially those who are not naturally wine drinkers and have been turned off by typical wines.

Terroir, a French word sometime described as the sum of all the environmental factors that influence a given vineyard site.Some examples are amount of sunshine, soil type, altitude, amount of rain, fog, and wind that affect the quality of the finished wine like altitude, position relative to the sun, angle of incline, and water drainage. Other definitions of terroir connote a "sense of place" in the terroir. And this could never be more applicable than here in our Fulchino Vineyard located in Hollis, New Hampshire, where we couple our love of sun, soil and vines with hostory. atmosphere, tradition, hard work and joy. In fact, "sense of place" truly captures the essence of our vineyard.

The 2010 Growing Season in Progress

We believe in letting the vine and its fruit express itself. We are translators for what has already been created. Our joy is in seeing others enjoy our wine as a food, a medicine as Hippocrates said, and to enjoy it with their families and friends. Much is said of terroir and what the earth contributes to a wine but we can add something more... intangibles... While nearby cities to our south, east and north bustle with activity, a timeless feeling engulfs the atmosphere hovering over and around the vines. A timeless quality exists here that brings us all back to another time seemingly gone by. Here hustle and bustle no longer matter and traditions that go back in our family for centuries have resurfaced.Annually we work to harness the wild portion of the terrior, the planting of new generations of vines, the yearly pruning, cultivating and ultimately the harvesting of the fruit of the vine. To our north, family farmers can be seen toiling away bringing fresh food to local markets and tourists, and the occasional sounds of young children playing escape the confines of the treetops. To our immediate east it is common to see young foals coming into the world and learning to walk and soon are outrunning their parents...to our south are wetlands that provide safety and rest to white tail deer, wild turkeys, small game and the occasional bear or coyote that tracks its prey. With an eye up to the sky one will see circling hawks, wild geese, ducks and the occasional passenger jet that takes its passenger to places here and there in a hurry... passing over this place of silence..of peace..of simple beauty where two or more people can decide to not rush around, but to sit face to face with another and just talk with each other and observe the many nests that momma and pappa birds have decided to construct in our trellis to lay eggs and raise their young and occasionally you will see on the ground a nest filled with eggs and a mother killdeer trying to lead you awat from it. In front of us, as we gaze thru the vineyard rows, yellow finches and robust cardinals are among the many species of birds that flit to and fro and rest on the many trellis wires for a rest or to use as a launching pad to pluck earthworms from the healthy and deeply organic soil below.

The soil itself is a bit of a rich story in and of itself. Two feet deep in places of rich organic matter virtually devoid of anything else such as sand, clay or rocks reaches depths of up to a full two feet (somewhat uncommon in the six state region of New England) until we reach a seeming endless coarse sand that houses a year round high water table that feed the vines naturally. We do no irrigation of our established vines.The topsoil itself is rich in minerals and nutrients, a natural home to the vines and it holds rainwater for a time until ultimately and begrudgingly it releases it to the sands below where the roots of the vine chase the moisture. These sands lay to depth of another 50 feet or more are a natural occurrence in southern New Hampshire. And all of this rests on the foundation of our region. Granite. Hence the name the Granite State.Our granite over time yields to the pressures of the earth and fragment and ever so slowly release their own minerals upward into the sand, where they wait for the roots of the vines to find them.


Bringing the Tradition to You
Newly Planted in 2007
More Vines Planted in 2008

Located at the lowest point in Hollis' Pine Hill Valley our level vineyard is a quiet place, yet active with contradictions.It is peaceful yet full of natures tugs and pulls. The terroir says to this next generation 'come visit with me..come .work with me...come harvest me, together we can yield for you wine as a drink...wine as a food...and wine as a medicine in this most unexpected of places'.The teroir says to us 'that things will not be easy but with hard work I will yield to you if you respect what I have to offer'

Fresh Strawberries and Peaches
from Lavoie's Farm on Nartoff Rd, Hollis
(pictured John Lavoie)