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Silver Stream Winery at Silver Stream Winery
Silver Stream Winery
Boutique Winery and Vineyards in Orange County. 6-8 varietal small batch wine created each year.
Website www.SilverStreamWinery.com
History
In 1927 Samuel Lifshitz established a farm here on that same property overlooking Trout Brook on 110 acres of land. They raised corn in the morning and played softball late in the afternoon. Conveniently, the cornfield was right next to the ballfield and also across from the airfield where Barky Dulgarian flew his plane. Barky was a character!
When they were not playing softball, raising corn or watching Barky buzz the rooftops, my family ran a lumberyard in Brooklyn. (We have the original cash register in the tasting room.)
1980s--90s
Well,I, Ken Lifshitz, had never wanted to raise corn, or fly planes or run a lumberyard so after college, I, Sam's grandson, joined the Merchant Marine. (That's not me in the picture). By the time I returned from the sea in 1983, all but 11 acres of the land had been sold off for development. I decided the hillside was a perfect spot for a vineyard. Luckily for me, this 11 acres was a well drained South West facing hillside. so in 1989 I moved my family up here, supporting us by computer programming jobs and started planting the first vines two years later.
Finally, in 1999 we formed a business partnership named Silver Stream Winery and began to produce wines from the locally grown grapes and they hoped to open the winery that year. Well, things never seem to go as planned here in the Highlands and things dragged on in front of various local planning boards until 2004, when the Orange County Legislature in a 6 to 5 vote, voted to allow the winery on the property. It was a whisker thin margin. It took another two years after that for the tasting room facility to be added because, 2003 and 2004 turned out to be disastrous years for grape producers in New York due to a number of odd weather events.
Today
We hope to open this year and make enough money so we can go back to playing softball. (Just kidding,--we love this business).
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