It all starts with intention. Sustainable farming requires less sprays and more hand passes on each vine. Listening in the cellar means working with the fruit, fermentations, and wines on the blending table - guiding them rather than forcing with things like chemical additions, recipes, or any idealistic notions. The creative journey around here means owning everything from collaborative farming, earnestly trying to make the best wine on the table, and even cutting little pieces of paper out to design the labels for the bottles.

We're a tiny operation - at the moment, a mighty team of two with help from family and friends to make the wheels roll forward. There's a lovely story about making wine with my Italian immigrant grandfather on the sidewalks of Philadelphia as a child to night shifts at a winery in Brooklyn to the vineyards of Sonoma and Oregon's Willamette Valley. But what I'm most excited about is our return home to share that story with folks in person.

Since the beginning, the dream has been to bring world class winemaking to the place I grew up and be near the people I love. To level up those early childhood days, using my whole body weight to move the hand-crank destemmer and basket press by incorporating state of the art equipment and years of professional experience.

Our doors are finally open in the Olde Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Thanks for your interest in all of this. I hope you enjoy the wines and might join us in the cellar to taste them. It's the privilege of a lifetime to make them.

It's hot out there this time of the year! With that, our carrier services recommend holding all wine shipments until safer, cooler temperatures resume this fall. Any orders placed now will be safely stored in our temperature controlled facility until further notice. Please email tom@praytellwines.com with any questions or concerns about ordering online.

We also offer retail sales out of our new winery and tasting room in Philadelphia located at 1615 N. Hancock Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122. Our open hours are Friday through Monday, 2pm to 7pm.