Our story begins when I traveled to Asia as a manufacturing representative. There I discovered a great deal of manufacturing and met my wife, Rita.

Rita and I started the winery in 2002, the year we were married. We decided to invest in a winery here in America and built our winery in the "Enchanted Mountains" of Western New York.

Our goal is to make "The Best Blueberry Wine" on a small scale similar to the small estate wineries in Europe. We educated ourselves in wine making from books, friends and also my father, who has made fruit wine for 40 years.

Our wine is made of the highest quality hand picked fruit, with first ferment on berry and second ferment in aging. The last ice age that formed most of upstate New York went around our mountain and produced our unique soil and fauna. This combination and our sustainable agriculture practices help us to grow blueberries that are so delicious.

Our name TAN CHILDS Winery is derived from my wife's old family name "TAN" and my old family name "CHILDS". The label is a blending of cultures between East and West.

—Peter Childs