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A Vineyard in Vermont

Campaign Introduction:

Help us realize this vision: a community winery for producing raw, organic Vermont wine.

$10,625

Funds Raised

$9,500

Funding Goal

Aug 2021

Ended

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Raised Percent :
111%
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$10,625

Funds Raised

$9,500

Funding Goal

Aug 2021

Ended

Raised Percent :
111%
This campaign was successful! 😃
Or purchase a reward below if available!
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Campaign Story

We are part of a new wave of Vermont farmers, grape growers and wine makers who believe that wine is food and soil comes first. There's a small number of Vermont vineyards farming organically and biodynamically, earning a world-wide reputation for serious, sustainable farming techniques in cold climates and we are one of them!
 
Our small piece of Vermont is in a Barnard valley that feels like the mountainous regions and high country in France, Switzerland, and Italy. Our immediate neighbors all farm and garden organically "vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, beef, dairy (the best ice cream on the planet from Kiss the Cow Farm), chickens, ducks, turkeys, and apples.
 
Hmmm, we thought, what could we add to this beautiful picture?
 
We've watched the wine world change as more people reach beyond conventional, ordinary wines for natural, healthy, raw wines. Natural wine and cider makers in Vermont are creating a new wine region. La Collina Vineyards has five-plus acres of grapes in the ground, and we're growing six cold-hardy, alpine varieties. Some we will sell to our neighbors and fellow natural winemakers. The rest, we're making into our own wine. We completed our first harvest (1,500 lbs of grapes!) and stomped and pressed the grapes in a repurposed garage. Your contribution will help us to build a second story for equipment and wine storage, and a tasting area and stomp pad on the ground floor.

Campaign Contributions

Name Location Date
, October 10, 2020
Jill Kline Laramie, WY August 12, 2021
Daniel Potts GARRISON, NY August 10, 2021
Maureen Yoder Boston, MA August 10, 2021
Anonymous Pomfret , VT August 04, 2021
Anonymous Missoula, MT August 03, 2021
Thomas Ames Norwich, VT August 03, 2021
Sam Reynolds Washington, DC July 22, 2021
Nancy LaRowe Norwich, VT July 22, 2021
KEITH KAPLAN Merritt Island, FL July 23, 2021
Gordon Henriksen Durango, CO July 20, 2021
Douglas Harp Hanover, NH May 20, 2021

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Rewards

$25

A Big Shout-out Thank You
Up to $25. A shout-out thank you on our laCollina facebook page

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$26

Win that beautiful Nouveau
If you donate $26 - $50, your name will be included in a drawing for six bottles of La Collina wine

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$75

Welcome to the world of Vermont wine
For $51. to $75., a voucher for a bottle of la Collina wine.

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$100

Alpine Style
$151.-$250., a voucher for two bottles of la Collina wine

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$100

Cold Climate Gorgeous
$76. to $150., a voucher for one bottle of laCollina wine plus a voucher for a pint of the best ice cream on the planet from Kiss the Cow Farm in Barnard (to be picked up at their farm store).

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$350

Cold Play
$251. to $350., a voucher for three bottles of la Collina wine plus a voucher for a pint of the best ice cream on the planet, from Kiss the Cow Farm in Barnard (to be picked up on the night of intended use at the KTC store)

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$500

Celebrate, Alpine-style
$351. to $500., a voucher for six bottles of la Collina wine plus a voucher for a pint of the best ice cream on the planet from Kiss the Cow Farm in Barnard, Vt (to be picked up at the farm store in Barnard).

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$750

Moonlight in Vermont
$501 to $999., an invitation for dinner for four in the vineyard (with laCollina wines, of course).

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$1,000

Cellar Brag
$1,000.--, a case of twelve la Collina wines with your name on the label (or someone you really like)

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