Ehrlich Brothers specializes in two unique wines made from the farm's own harvest.

The winery is situated on a high ridge above the Hudson River Valley, in Argyle, New York. Ehrlich Brothers has propagated and expanded its nurseries of cultivars of the American Elderberry Sambucus canadensis, obtained from a Vermont horticulturalist and now thriving on Washington County lands favorable to the native plant.   













Both the flower and the mature fruit of the elderberry plant are used, for highly contrasting styles of wine: from the flowers, Elderflower Bubbly; from the fruit, Elderberry Dessert Wine.

Ehrlich Brothers winery specializes in inventive vinification methods which are needed to get the most from the intense fruit and the exceptionally fragrant flower head.

Elderflower Bubbly is a beautiful and delicate sparkling wine that can only be made during a short time window of a few weeks during the June bloom.  The white flower heads, once picked, are rushed to the winery to be processed within 2 hours, carefully, to avoid bruising.

Although preserved elderflower concentrates are readily available commercially, they absolutely can not compete with the proceeds from fresh flowers. Ehrlich Brothers uses no concentrates of any kind, ever. All flavors come from the thousands of flower heads giving their all to the wine-in-process.


Ehrlich Brothers Elderberry Dessert Wine is made in the style of a port wine, using fully-ripened elderberries and carefully-chosen yeast strains.

The berries of a single elderberry bush do not all ripen at the same time - so each bush must be revisited multiple times to ensure harvest of properly-ripened berries only.

The wine is fortified - at just the right time - with brandy spirits from Finger Lakes Distilling in Burdett, New York.

The Dessert Wine is aged for a minimum of ten years before it is judged ready for sale.

Where can you find it? Check our "Availability" page on this website.

We always invite and appreciate customer reactions and comments.

Best regards to our customers.  Enjoy.

Sure, it is ridiculously wintry now, but summer will come around again; no fear.

Hundreds of little, white, 5-petaled flowers make up each panicle. When the panicle of flowers is at just the right stage of bloom, Ehrlich Brothers snip it off the bush. They toss it in a collection bucket with hundreds of other such panicles.

Elderflower bubbly is made from thousands of flowers, which give the wine all its flavors and fragrances. No extracts of any kind are used. It's just the real deal.

Sometimes a bumblebee or a hummingbird comes along and robs some of the nectar. That's okay; there is enough for them, too.

Have no fear: there is plenty of Ehrlich Brothers Elderflower Bubbly 2021 on its way into being. Next fall and winter, we will be able to enjoy it as we Remember Summer!

One of Ehrlich Brothers' plots of Elderberry bushes is arrayed near the margins of a swampy former beaver pond. The bushes "like to have their feet wet," so they do well in that location.

Lovely in its own way just now, it will provide a very welcome sight of green when leaf-out happens in April. It's one of many things to which to look forward.

Best wishes to all our customers!

The bushes overwintered well and had a good start this spring with good rains.

The flower heads are brought in to the winery, by the bucket. All the Elderflower Bubbly is made as a series of small batches. The wine yeasts are hard at work.

The colors of the flowers - the gold of the pollen and stamens, the pale green of the tiny flower-stems - combine in the brilliant yellow-gold of the Elderflower Bubly. Enjoy!

These cuttings are just beginning to leaf out.

A Happy Spring to all our customers!