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Big Creek Vineyard and Winery

Name: Big Creek Vineyard and Winery
Address: 120 Keller Road, Kunkletown, PA, 18058, US
Telephone: +16106813959
Price range: $
Rating: 4.8

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Big Creek Vineyard and Winery

A peaceful vineyard in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Family-owned, limited production vineyard. Over 2 decades of vine to bottle production.
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Unique varietals, architecturally grand winery, and family feel.

09/29/2025

09/25/2025

We are very proud to support our local Western Pocono Community Library! Make sure you check us out at this event (hopefully alongside checking out a good book.)

Save the date! WPCL's Beer, Wine, and Chocolate Festival is taking place on Saturday, November 22nd from 11am-3pm! Tickets go on sale at the WPCL Circulation desk October 15th.

09/25/2025

The last charcuterie dinner of the season!

🍓 dark chocolate & pistachio strawberries
🍒 black cherry & Frontenac reduction
🐐 cinnamon cranberry goat cheese with an Apple Raspberry wine jam on top
💛 mustard seed cheddar
☕️ lavender espresso cheddar
🐖 salamis
🥜 mixed nuts
🍐 grilled Bosc bear with brown sugar & Chinese five spice
🍇 grapes
🫒 Kalamata olives
🥒 herb cornichons

09/23/2025

This perfect imprint of a bird that flew into our window 😬

09/22/2025

We will be CLOSED to the public for a wedding on Saturday October 11th.

09/22/2025

Be sure to join us this Saturday for our Build-Your-Own-Bouquet Flower Bar featuring Pumpkin Succulent Planters. Pocono Florist is returning as well as Readings and Reiki by Caisee Lynn on 9/27 from 12-5PM.

Our $8 fall drink specials will debut this day as well, including:

Harvest Moon Sangria - our Riesling hybrid Moonlight White with cranberry and mandarin orange

Spiked Apple Pie - our Spiced Apple wine with ginger brandy, served hot

Glühwein - red wine with mulling spices, served hot

We hope to see you there!

09/20/2025

You know I had to flex this wedding charcuterie table I made!

🍋 homemade lemon curd
🧄 black/kalamata/green olives & feta in Seyval dry white wine with lemon, garlic, and herbs
🥒 pickles
🧀 assorted cheddars & havartis, brie
🥜 mixed salted nuts
🍓 strawberries & blackberries
🐐 goat cheese with blueberry & vanilla, and another with honey & chili crisp
🌶 banana peppers & locally grown cherry peppers stuffed with garlic cheddar, prosciutto, parsley, and garlic
🍇 locally grown assorted grape varieties
🐖 baked prosciutto chips
🥓 assorted meats
🌿 fresh garden basil
🍯 raspberry jam

09/20/2025

It was an honor and a delight to host Michelle & Mark for their vow renewal. What a truly beautiful day. If you're looking to host an event, elope, or have a vineyard wedding, we hope you will consider us.

bigcreekvineyard.com/weddings

Photos by Handy Pics Photography

Address

120 Keller Road
Kunkletown, PA
18058

Opening Hours

Monday	12pm - 5pm
Tuesday	12pm - 5pm
Wednesday	12pm - 5pm
Thursday	12pm - 5pm
Friday	12pm - 7pm
Saturday	12pm - 7pm
Sunday	12pm - 5pm

Telephone

+16106813959

Website

https://www.bigcreekvineyard.com/

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Our Roots

Seventy-odd years ago, the men in our family were looking for a place to go hunting. Grandma Millie, our matriarch, was just a girl at the time. Her mother Nana saw an ad in the New York Times advertising 80 acres with an old farmhouse, a barn, and an old school from the 1800’s for sale. Should anyone wish to view the property, the landowner would pay for their train fare to Stroudsburg and put them up in the Indian Princess Hotel. They would also throw in a free set of Melmac dishes.

Nana and Aunt Jo made the journey to see the property. The entire kit-and-caboodle was on sale for $2800, including the various buildings. We still have that set of Melmac dishes.

Their husbands, Kiki (Millie’s father) and Uncle Dom, split the cost of the property and kept 40 acres apiece. Kiki chose the acreage upon which the vineyard now sits. Uncle Dom chose the acreage up on the hill.

The old farmhouse was given some much-needed repairs. Uncle Dom and Aunt Jo lived there for a time until they built a log cabin elsewhere on the property. Kiki and Nana took up in the old farmhouse. Today, it is the exact site of Stephen Strohlein’s house, Millie’s eldest son and our vintner Dominic’s older brother. He made sure the front door to his home is in the exact same spot as the farmhouse’s front door once stood.

Millie says what her father lacked in formal education, he more than made up for with common sense.

“There’s only so much land in the world,” he had said. “Once people buy it all up, it’s gone.

We owe very much to his foresight.

“How did you get started?”

(Certainly a proper question to ask a novice vigneron in the mountains of Pennsylvania.)

A circular story which begins and ends on the farm in Kresgeville, where our vineyard stands today. The farm had always been a summertime Camelot. A place of extreme natural beauty and wonder, where a boy from Brooklyn could adventure his heart out. Purchased by my great uncle Dominic and my grandfather Sam three quarters of a century ago, it was the place I always wanted to be.

There was no good living to be had in adventuring- except, perhaps, as a Forest Ranger or Game Warden. And so the epic of education began. Beginning in upstate New York (SUNY at Cobleskill), then as west in Kentucky as one can get (Murray State University), then ending up in Georgia (UGA in Athens). By this point in time the idea of being a Game Warden or Forest Ranger had morphed into wildlife parasitology.

It was in Georgia that I first got interested in wine in a social context. I really liked people who liked wine. Georgia was also where I first visited a real winery (B & B Rosser Winery in High Shoals-sadly no longer in business). From there it was north to a research position at the USDA in Maryland.

Maryland was just a good stone’s throw from the farm. Weekends there were gold. At the same time, I was becoming more comfortable with wine and began making my own, with grapes from California via Brooklyn. One fateful weekend at the farm, my mother’s best friend’s (Mary) father (Mr. D) suggested that I should try growing grapes instead of buying them. So, I did.

We started with some concord, then some European varieties which were used to make the wines we liked to drink, and then some hybrid vines. At this point we had close to 5 acres of grapes and were making very drinkable wines, mostly. From there we decided to make it a family business and jumped in with both feet. So here we are.

“Why did you get started?”

(Is the question people really want to ask but are too gracious to imply that they thought we were crazy.)

It was just a picture that came to be in my head, a simple and innocent provenance. Not an image of wine bottles with medals, black tie dinners, or bags of money. Just an old wooden table with mismatched chairs, set out at the edge of the vineyard. Some fruit, cheese, olives and bread; pitchers of wine and water, and jelly jars. Numinous, rustic, peasanty, and perfect.

Around the table are a handful of people. In brilliant focus are the hands of the oldest and the faces of the youngest (the rest were an “image sfumato” al la da Vinci). The hands are stained, cracked and calloused. The faces are smooth and scrubbed clean, eyes wide and bright, ears pricked.

Mostly they represent characters from my past with some link to wine. The elders had the elegance of simplicity and a grace born of hard work. Autorotative without the arrogance. They speak softly because everyone cares about what they were saying. It was life that they are talking about, using vines and wine as a metaphor. Past, present and future, just from the shape of a vine or the taste in a sip of wine. Quiet empaths, the vines are not an audience, but members of the same choir.

For whatever reason, it appeared while at a crossroad of career and proximity to the farm.

It has proven to be both cathartic and Benedictine in nature.

- Dominic Strohlein, vigneron of Big Creek Vineyards

vi·gne·ron \ ˌvēn-yə-ˈrōn \ - someone who makes wine from the grapes they grow

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