What is a CSA?

CSA generally stands for
Community Supported Agriculture.
Typically members of a CSA pay a farmer up front for a share in the summer's crops. Every week they get a bag of produce from the farmer representative of whatever the farm is producing at that time. In return for a guaranteed income, the farmer can skip the middle man and offer fresh, often organic, produce at a reduced cost directly to participants.

Members develop a more intimate relationship to the food they eat and where it comes from, as well as having an opportunity to do work on the farm and get see how it all comes together.

In Enlightenment Wines CSA,
CSA stands for:
Community Supported Alcohol
Rather than receiving produce, members get a mix of small production wines and sparkling meads made at our winery in upstate NY. Each quarter the case of 12 750ml bottles are different . Drop off's are avery three or 4 months, or 3-4 cases a year. The wines are natural living wines, unfiltered and unsulfited, organic when possible
and using only NY state ingrediants.

You may drink them immediately or cellar them as you wish.

This year members first case is mix a dry sparkling organic apple wine, Last Gift of my Daemon Lover a variety of dry honey wine variations including an elderberry and cherry infused sparkling mead Cuvee Anguis Singularum and a wild yeasted apple wine Wild Melaides that was developed specifically for Jimmy's 43 in manhattan and the restaurant Eat (Formerly Eat Records) in Greenpoint.

Each bottle is numbered and the labels are designed and silkscreened by hand by the wine maker.

For Enlightenment Wines
the CSA saves us time and CO2 emissions by consolidating our deliveries to a few designated locations and reduces the need for us to constantly drive around to wine stores. But more importantly having a committed "audience" for our new releases gives us the freedom to try out exciting new ideas on a small scale and work with a group familiar with our low energy non processed methodology.

For the members
there is great savings financially, but even better is the opportunity to have a close relationship with the beverages that bring so much joy to your friends and family. Historically this was the way people would drink wine or beer- it was always a local affair and an intimate one.

Each year the CSA is limited to 30 members so that new wines in micro production and not available in stores (Such as the dandilion infused spring tonic Memento Mori I am working on now) can be available to every participant. Members can come to the farm and help bottle, follow the production over the web, and get a chance to taste new wines that are being developed at different stages of their life span. You may even help with the silkscreening of the labels.

Quarterly pickups in Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Lower and Upper Manhattan are festive events where you can meet like minded mead and wine enthusiasts interested in radical wine practice. Alternatively, home delivery is possible for a fee to those who request it.

We look forward to you joining us in the coming year.

The first drop off will be this summer's sparkling and infused meads on a rolling admission basis.

THIS CSA IS SOLD OUT FOR THE YEAR. sorry.
If you want to be the first to know about openings (it happens) or when we expand things send an email to newreleases AT enlightenmentwines DOT com we will add you to the wait list
... On occasion we do make special things available to the public, this email list and the facebook
are the best way to find out.

FOR MORE INFO ON PRICES AND LOGISTICS PLEASE READ THE FAQ