Chertok Wines

05/16/2026

Market season begins!

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04/02/2026

01/12/2026

Boy… January… what a mixed blessing. Cold, dark and financially tenuous BUT there’s ample time to conjure up new projects, revisit favorite pastimes and really invest in all those good practices that lead to just a little more joy during the day.

One of 2025’s big goals was to get out and play in front of folks again. Only got the one gig in there but it was a blast and so in 2026 I’m gonna do my durndest to put more music out there alongside our yummy wines! This Saturday, my favorite person to play music with, the one and only is coming up to Vermont to grace us with his music. We’ll be playing two shows on Saturday 1/17 where you can also try the wines I make!

First, we’ll be playing from 11-1 at at the

That evening, we’ll pop over to to play from 6:30-7:30

It’s gonna be a great time full of unfamiliar outlooks on familiar tunes and we hope to see ya there!

11/26/2025

Last year as part of our contribution to the winter market, whipped up an AMAZING mulled wine using badass spices from that we picked up at the just around the corner. It was a total hit and we sold out halfway through the market! We enjoyed it so much that we made more for a few family gatherings, refining the recipe a little more each time. Well, this year I thought it was time to share the love so we whipped up these righteous little spice sachets perfectly portioned for a bottle of wine. We really think this is a great way to celebrate the feasting season! The mulling kits are LIVE on our website and I’ll be at the tonight pouring cups of warm, delicious mulled wine!

If you can’t make it tonight, we can be found every Saturday at .
Locals may note that we also offer FREE local delivery. Our cutoff for orders tomorrow is noon!

11/06/2025

MARK YER CALENDARS YE RAD VERMONTIERS for NEXT FRIDAY 11/14 we’ll be joining the oh so excellent crew at as part of their fondue nights featuring local winemakers! We’ll have nifty trio of excellently cheese appropriate Chertok wines to drink alongside ooey gooey fondue action.

Tickets in bio!

10/16/2025

For all its challenges and pitfalls, the communal project of learning to grow and make wine in Vermont has been the most rewarding endeavor I have ever been a part of. The stunning tonnage of talent and grit consistently blows me away. Vermont wine, and New England wine generally, are still very much in a tender, nascent stage of wild (and sometimes clumsy) discovery. We are, all of us, learning by doing and, crucially, talking and sharing and hyping each other up! I have a hermetic leaning as a person but every time I choose to get out of my comfort zone and spend a little of my time supporting and learning and laughing with my fellow intrepid New England wine spelunkers has filled me with a deep sense of hope.

I took a little break yesterday to pick Frontenac Gris with up at their Vergennes vineyard. We’re enjoying an uncommonly low intensity harvest here at Chertok Wines and the lightened workload has afforded me the rare chance to go help a few other folks pick. I keep coming back to this thought that collaboration is the most important part of this whole equation, more than terroir, more than technique, more than taste and style. The specialness of New England terroir is very real and very wonderful but without the joined efforts and insights of so many fearless entrepreneurs it’s meaningless.

The grapes are amazing, the terroir compelling, the sunsets are stunning but more than anything, this story is about the people. Very glad to be in community with such a badass crew of innovators.

Special shoutout to .wines and for gifting me with my favorite memories of harvest 2025!

10/08/2025

And just like that all our 2025 grapes are in! This has been such a fun harvest season with some truly excellent t experiences picking alongside a whole bunch of rad folks. We couldn’t have done it without you all!
















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09/02/2025

Harvest 2025 is underway starting with a whole bunch of organic Itasca from Perkinsville VT alongside the fabulously talented and generous ! Huge thanks to all the hard working harvest helpers that made it such a successful start!

08/27/2025

Emet is the wine we started Chertok Wines to make. I was tasting the hybrid wines available in 2017 and I kept having this recurring thought that co-fermentation of complimentary varieties, clay aging and whole-cluster macerations were the key to making elevated New England wine.

Our best vineyard site here at Belmont Orchard is planted with Emet in mind and it wasn’t until 2024 that I felt I had a blend of varieties that most closely resembled the style we expect to get from the La Crescent, Frontenac Noir & Gris that we have planted here. From 2025 onwards we’ll start adding more and more of our own fruit to this very special cuvee but in 2024, we worked with Frontenac Noir, Frontenac Gris, Vignoles and Vidal.

The winemaking for Emet is pretty simple, all the varieties were co-fermented together except for Vidal which was by its lonesome for purely logistical/ volumetric reasons. Fermented as whole clusters with incomplete foot crushing as we always do and pressing at the very end of fermentation, around 4 weeks. The wine is extremely compelling stuff and while it’s still new to bottle and therefore still settling, it’s delicious with tons of room to grow and evolve over the years.

There’s a ton of structure in this wine but despite that it’s bright, fragrant and beautifully alive. There’s something magical about qvevri wines and the way they enfold the drinker over time, a feature that dovetails nicely with the alluring aromatics and tight core of fruit in Emet. Also, huge shoutout to the enormous talents of whose wonderful labels draw so much attention to what we’re trying to do here at Belmont Orchard!

The wine is live on our online store, can be found at each of the farmer’s markets we attend AND this coming friday 08/29 we’ll be pouring it alongside Eve Pink and Shekhina at from 6-9!

We can be found at the and every week!

Restaurant and retail friends can find Emet in stock in MA thru and in VT thru

08/26/2025

It’s that time! September is around the corner and ready or not, harvest is here! It’s been a drought year here in Vermont (and elsewhere too I’m sure), which means the grapes are SWEET little sugar bombs that should make some awesome wines.

This year we are partnering with to harvest some gorgeous, organically farmed vines in Perkinsville, VT (Windsor County) along with our very first harvest at our own farm. Perkinsville is the larger plot and where we will be needing all hands on deck, so if you’ve ever dreamed of harvesting grapes on a gorgeous September day, please, please give us a shout! We will be primarily looking for help on Mondays and Tuesdays throughout September, starting September 1st. DM us or email [email protected] if you’re interested! We can’t compensate with anything but gratitude and a good time but it IS always a worthwhile experience. 🙏