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BOORDY VINEYARD ;- 
J. & P. WAGNER, Props. 
RIDERWOOD, MARYLAND 
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ABOUT BOORDY VINEYARD 
Allow us to introduse ourselves. 
Boordy Vineyard is a dual enterprise. On the one hand we are nurserymen specializing in 
grapes vines only, with our main emphasis on the new French Hybrid warieties. On the other 
hand, we are wine-growers, producing red and white table wines from those French Hybrids 
which have been found best adapted to the soil and climate of Maryland. 
Our Wines are produced in @ small model winery, of about 10,000 gallons capacity, which is 
located on our home preperty. The wines are made and aged in small quantities, after the 
French mammer, and bottled exclusively at the winery. They are to be had in the best hotels, 
restaurants, clubs and retail outlets of Baltimore and Washingtono Our moderate production, 
plus the complications of 48 different sets of State laws, prevent a more general distri- 
bution, though from time to time these wines have been available, and favorably received, 
in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Wilmington, Providence ,and 
other cities. 
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We are Wine-growers, first, because we are fand of wine ourselves, believing with Pasteur 
that wine is a most healthful and temperate beverage and with the French people in general 
that “a day without wine is a day without sunshine." 
Second, we grow wine because we believe that wine-drinking will never become general in 
our country until wine-growing on a regional basis becomes general. 
Third, we are Wine-growers because the quality of our own wines is the best evidence of 
the wine=-growing possibilities of the French Hybrids under American conditions. These 
possibilities are not merely theoretical; they are proved, not only by the production 
of our own winery but by the extent to which the large American wineries outside of 
California are turning to these superb new wine-grapes for their own vineyards. 
As nurserymen, we have propagated the French Hybrids for eleven consecutive seasons, and 
in fact introduced them commercially into the United States. We are proud of the fact that 
vines from our nursery are now yielding good red and white table wines for producers small 
and large in almost every State of the Union and many parts of Canada. Correspondence 
with our customers, most of whom wind up as friends, bas built up an unrivalled storehouse 
of information as to the behavior of these vines under all sorts of conditions. This 
information is always at your service, and enables us to say with growing assurance 
whith varieties grow best where. | 
ABOUT THE FRENCH HYBRIDS 
In wine-making, the main thing is the grape. It is much more important, for example, than 
the soil. If the grapes are right, good wine can be made. If the grapes are wrong, the 
wine will be unsatisfactory no matter what the soil and climate are and how much care is 
put into making the wine. 
The classical Buropean wine-grapes grow well in California, where they produce wines both 
Proprietors, Bonded Winery No. 13, Fifth District 
