About Us

A collection of all-natural preserves and fruit wines made with varieties of berries and fruits native to the Appalachian region. Our full selection of fresh fruit preserves, fruit butters, and fruit wine come from a history of passion, dedication, and a promise to deliver to our customers the all-natural products inspired by our Appalachian heritage. Our business started 25 years ago, offering a few varieties of preserves at fairs and festivals throughout the state. We are now available in over 900 retail stores in the region including major retailers like Kroger, Wal-Mart, and Sam’s Club, and many others.

What makes West Virginia Fruit & Berry Unique?

Store shelves today horde popular mainstream breakfast products just brimming with high fructose corn syrup, water as the first ingredient, added chemical preservatives, and artificial flavors... West Virginia Fruit and Berry bring you preserves and fruit butters like they were originally meant to be enjoyed. With fruits and berries as the FIRST ingredient - just like grandma used to make! 

It all starts with the best ingredients: All of our products are free from chemical additives and preservatives, artificial colors and flavors, and of course free from high-fructose corn syrup. Simply jam-packed with ripe fresh berries, real super-fine granulated sugar, fruit pectin (a natural fruit fiber for the structure of the preserve), and citric acid (natural fruit acidity to preserve freshness), and then we remove those bothersome seeds leaving a truly amazing all-natural fruit preserve. We believe that if we wouldn’t serve it to our own family, we wouldn’t offer it to yours. This belief has helped us provide quality all-natural products that are lacking in our grocery stores today to our customers as a proud West Virginia owned business that has gained a following of fans around the world.

West Virginia Fruit and Berry is proudly displayed in hundreds of retail stores in the region, and available online. Our products include Fruit Wines, Seedless Preserves, Jalapeno jams, Fruit Butters, and now bourbon and rye whiskeys with our top-selling preserves available in an “All Juice-Sweetened” option - sweetened with a white grape juice concentrate rather than our natural cane sugar.

The Berry Tale

Bob and Becky Titchenal, both native West Virginians, formed West Virginia Fruit and Berry in early 1995. They started growing berries in the Sun Valley area of Clarksburg, WV and then moved, in 1998, to a new farm location in Bridgeport. It was their intent in the beginning to grow berries for West Virginia wineries, and then expand and introduce their own line of “Value Added” products.

The more they researched the potential of quality West Virginia food products for the specialty food market, the more they were excited by the potential of expanding WV agricultural production for the average family farmer.

They started marketing their new products and continued to address alternative sustainable agriculture for small family farms. This offers small family farms the potential of growing specialty crops such as fruits, berries, herbs, flowers, and various crops in demand - thus giving the farmers a chance for additional income from either selling what they grow or creating their own value-added products.

“There is a need for small fruit growers in West Virginia. We can help create a market for the fruits they grow. There is no doubt that we are finding a market for West Virginia grown products, not only in this state, but in neighboring states as well” - Becky

Through mail orders, their products have even found their way to the homes of people in Europe, Australia, and Asia. People of West Virginia are proud to share a piece of West Virginia through gifts to their friends all over the world. Native West Virginians who are living all over the world, also crave a taste of home.

In September of 2015, Bob and Becky announced that the company would celebrate their 20th Anniversary of marketing value added products for the state of West Virginia by adding a new line of fruit wines. Named and flavored from the same berries in their mouth-watering preserves. They introduced four West Virginia wines, which include our Mountain Blackberry Wine, Wild & Wonderful Raspberry, Luscious Cherry Blossom, and Uncle Jake’s Elderberry Wine.

These Wines, Now the top selling wine in West Virginia Sam’s Clubs, and all 4 varieties in the top 10 selling wines at Tamarack, are now available in retailers through distributors across WV, VA, MD, KY, NC, OH, and D.C - and now available to everyone with direct shipping online!

West Virginia Fruit and Berry has maintained a consistent, high quality, all-natural product line for 25 years. Kroger, our largest retailer in West Virginia, has been a supporter since 1997. We have many grocers, gift shops, state parks, restaurants, and B&B’s in West Virginia that have supported them from the beginning. You can find your nearest retailer here - or order online.

West Virginia Fruit and Berry originally become known for its premium quality fruit & berry products through the wonderful fairs and festivals all around West Virginia. With the introduction of their Fruit Wines, Bob and Becky have begun to focus on expansion into retail markets and big box stores, such as Sam’s Club, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, CVS, 7-Eleven, Price Cutter, Little General, Fruth Pharmacy, Smoker Friendly’s and more.

Although they have stopped scheduling fairs and festivals, they can bee seen at events and wine tastings. Events will be listed on the what’s new section, and our events page on Facebook. Be sure and follow West Virginia Fruit and Berry on all social media platforms and subscribe to their newsletter for product updates and special offers.