Pennsylvania Wine, First Generation
Buckingham Valley Vineyards
One of the state's original family wineries — vines on Route 413 since the 1960s, and still pouring without pretense.
Buckingham Valley Vineyards is Pennsylvania wine history you can visit on a Saturday: founded in 1966, it stands among the very first wineries licensed under the state's Limited Winery Act, and the same family has grown, made, and poured its wines on Route 413 ever since. The operation remains refreshingly unpretentious — tasting-room pours, bottle sales, picnic tables among the vines, and prices that predate wine-country theater.
For Buckingham residents, the vineyard is a fixture of the township's preserved-farmland identity: proof that the protected fields around them still work for a living. It anchors an easy local afternoon — tastings, a picnic, and the back-road drive home through some of the county's best scenery.
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Visiting the vineyard
The tasting room pours a broad list — dry whites and reds, fruit wines, and sparkling made in-house — with bottles priced for regular drinking rather than trophy shelves. Outside, picnic tables sit at the vineyard's edge; visitors bring lunch, buy a bottle, and settle in among the rows.
The atmosphere is family-farm direct: staff who know the vintages because they made them, and generations of local customers who have been filling their trunks here since before Pennsylvania wine was a sentence anyone said proudly.
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Why it fits Buckingham
Buckingham's aggressive farmland preservation only matters if farms keep farming, and the vineyard is a fifty-plus-year demonstration. Its rows on 413 are part of the visual promise the township made — that these views would stay.
It also anchors an informal Bucks County wine trail with neighboring producers, giving residents a rotating weekend circuit through exactly the countryside they moved here for.
Questions People Ask
Buckingham Valley Vineyards — frequently asked questions
What is Buckingham Valley Vineyards?
Buckingham Valley Vineyards is one of Pennsylvania's first family wineries, founded in 1966 on Route 413 in Buckingham Township, Bucks County. It remains family-run, producing estate wines with a tasting room and picnic grounds among the vines.
Can you visit Buckingham Valley Vineyards?
Yes — the winery offers tasting-room pours and bottle sales with picnic tables at the vineyard's edge. The format is casual and self-directed, in keeping with its working-farm character.
Where is Buckingham Valley Vineyards?
The winery sits on Route 413 (Durham Road) in Buckingham Township, a few minutes south of the Route 202 crossroads and about ten minutes from both Doylestown and New Hope.
Why is Buckingham Valley Vineyards historically significant?
It was among the first wineries licensed under Pennsylvania's 1968 Limited Winery Act, helping pioneer the state's modern wine industry, and it has remained in the founding family for more than half a century.
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