grapery

[ grey-puh-ree ]

/ ˈgreɪ pə ri /

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noun, plural grap·er·ies.

a building where grapes are grown.

a vineyard.

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Origin of grapery

First recorded in 1805–15; grape + -ery

Ventilating the grapery is another important detail of the season's work.
Manual of American Grape-Growing|U. P. Hedrick
The pots were disposed in a glazed case within a cold grapery, and were watered when needful with pure water.
Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel|Samuel William Johnson
They had lived on the products of the orchard and grapery, and by cultivating a small patch of ground and keeping a few fowls.
Elsie's Womanhood|Martha Finley
The governor has a grapery, and presented us with some fine bunches of grapes.
Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California|Mary Evarts Anderson

An early Grapery might be thus located and be heated from the same boiler.
Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings|George E. Woodward