- 1619: 12th Jamestown law mandates landowners
plant 10
grapevines per acre
- 1740s: Farmer built manor house and
established 100-acre
farm
- 1800s: Property's primary crop was first
tobacco, then
apples
- 1920: Dairy built when South African imports
toppled
apple income
- 1920 - 1933: Prohibition prevented wine
production
- 1960s: Most of farm sold and subdivided into
Valley Green
Estates
- 1971: Virginia Farm Wineries Act
re-establishes farm
wineries
- 1976: Brad and Janell Buell built 2-acre,
9-varietal
Meriwether Vineyard
- 1984: After varietal experimentation, Buells
planted 15
Chardonnay acres
- 1991: Chris Pearmund purchased and improved
Meriwether
Vineyard
- 1995 - 2002: Premium Chardonnay grapes sold
to top
Virginia wineries
- 2003: Chris Pearmund and investors establish
Pearmund
Cellars Winery
- 2003: Inital production of 4000 cases ready
for opening
day, May 31st
- 2005: Maximum production of 5000 cases
available by 2nd anniversary
- 2006: First sister winery opens - Winery at LaGrange
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