A chance encounter with a small winery owner was all that it took to set Christina and Andrew Brooks on a quest that would take ten years, see them travel across the world and back to Canada and push them to their limits as they worked to build a vineyard of their own.

Despite limited funds - and even more limited knowledge of farming and agriculture, the two determined twenty-somethings took the big leap and bought a "diamond in the rough," a faded grand dame of a house and a derelict farm, smack in the middle of Niagara wine country.

To Build A Vineyard is the story of the...