Dan & Victoria considered several areas on the West Coast but finally decided that the Niagara region of New York State was the best place to produce fine wines from the classic European wine grapes of Germany and Northern France.

They found a 50-acre nursery and shrub farm that was available on the south shore of Lake Ontario and purchased it in 2005. The farm was covered with thousands of nursery plants, so Victoria & Dan went to work to dig up and sell them, freeing up space to plant the vineyards. They planted their first few acres in the spring of 2006, and finally in the fall of 2009 harvested their first substantial quantity of grapes.

They also started work in 2006 on a building to become their home and eventually the winery. Modeled on a French wine chateau, it remains a work in progress, but the house part of the building was finally ready for occupancy in the winter of 2008–2009, and Dan & Victoria moved out of the trailer they had been living in since 2006 into the new vineyard-themed home. Because they are doing as much of the work themselves as they can, it is a slow process, but progress continues to be made!

Since they had grapes to harvest and no winery, Victoria & Dan converted one of the old nursery buildings into a winery and tasting room, and opened for business in the winter of 2009/2010 with their first three wines.