Our Community Identity
All of us at Shelburne Vineyard have a strong commitment to agriculture, viticulture and community. We manifest these values in many ways. The Vineyard regularly plans or hosts events to benefit community organizations that share these values, contributing a portion of our proceeds to those organizations. In our Tasting Room we feature the art and specialty products produced in our region and support those artists and producers by inviting them to show their wares at our special events. We are members Vermont Fresh Network, NOFA VT (Northeast Organic Farming Association), Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility and the Vermont Gay Tourism Network as well as the Vermont and Lake Champlain Regional Chambers of Commerce.
As active members of the Vermont Grape and Wine Council, we work hard to promote and support not only our own, but our fellow Vermont winemaker’s products and to educate our customers on the quality and uniqueness of what we all produce. We encourage aspiring vintners and winemakers with mentoring and other support and try to share what we’ve learned as we have learned from those who came before us.
Each year at harvest, we are joined by a flock of community members and customers who join us for the harvest experience, and each semester we also welcome students from local colleges and universities studying in fields as diverse as Plant and Soil Science, Environmental Studies or Business and Marketing to intern and learn with us as we learn from them. Several of our former interns have gone on to successful careers in the field.
