Work began on the Four Daughters Vineyard & Winery’s expansion earlier this week. Photo provided

Four Daughters Vineyard & Winery started sowing the seeds of the future late last week.

Work began Thursday and Friday on a project to double the winery’s size with a 9,000-square-foot expansion, a project that will add a large event space and help increase production at the winery.

The new event center will take the winery from hosting events of about 72 people to events of about 300 people,

“It’s a big change, especially when you’re talking about weddings,” said Kristin Osborne, marketing director and the daughter of owners Gary and Vicky Vogt.

Construction will also add a pre-function area, two smaller rooms to be used as bridal changing rooms and an additional area for wine storage.

The entire space will also be used for additional wine production throughout.

Since the winery opened in December of 2011, wine production has gone from 8,000 gallons of wine its first year to 26,000 gallons last year.

Osborne said the expansion will help continue to increase production.

Signs of that production will be visible throughout the winery, as winemaking equipment has filled out the production room and will be featured throughout the new space.

“This is going to be a working winery still, even in the event area,” Osborne said.

The winery has hosted weddings, parties and corporate events, and Osborne said they’re already attracting new and exciting events to the expanded winey for next spring.

The expansion should be finished late this fall, and Four Daughters is already booking events for the new space.