Dunkin Family Vineyards

Dunkin Family Vineyards is part of the 2,200-acre Dunkin Families, LLC Farm located three miles west of Wagoner, Oklahoma (just southeast of Tulsa). The Vineyards were created as a result of a dinner conversation between Girouard Vines founder Chris Girouard and Christy (Dunkin) Rawlings.

 

In the summer of 2003, fresh from a trip to Napa Valley, Chris Girouard and his wife Jan were having dinner with friends Chris and Christy Rawlings. Talk soon turned to grape growing and Chris’ father’s experimental hybrids. When Chris mentioned his desire to see his dad’s grapes grown in one of the new Oklahoma vineyards, Christy, who had just recently assumed the duties of managing her family’s farm, had just the place.

 

In 2004, the Girouard’s and Dunkin’s teamed up to plant a small test vineyard on the Dunkin Families property. By the spring of 2008, Dunkin Family Vineyards had about five acres with plantings of George Girouard Hybrids and the Rhone varietals Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre and Petite Sirah. The vineyard currently has the capacity to produce 80 cases annually and the expansion in 2008 is expected to produce about 800 cases per year by 2013.

 

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