Buckingham Valley Vineyards

Buckingham Valley was one of the first wineries started under Pennsylvania’s Farm Winery Act, which allowed wineries to sell wine directly to the public if it was made from Pennsylvania grapes. Today Buckingham Valley is among the largest and most successful of Pennsylvania’s two hundred plus wineries. The winery started as a pipe dream in a dorm room at the University of Pennsylvania back in the fifties. Jerry Forest and his good friend Wladimir Guerrero would play guitars, drink wine, and dream of doing one or the other for a living. They decided they’d have a better chance of success making wine. The two, with the help of family and many friends, planted five acres in 1966, and renewed their guitar playing and wine drinking as they planned to start a winery.