Visit The Iowa Wine Trail by traversing the upper Mississippi Valley wine region at Anamosa, Baldwin, Bankston, Clinton, Decorah, Lisbon, Marquette, Fredericksburg, and West Branch. Sample well-crafted wines and ciders in the comfort of excellent and diverse tasting rooms among our heritage farms and vineyards, hilltop chateau, nestled river village, and Italian bistro.
Wineries can be visited almost daily and semi-annual Special Events shouldn’t be missed. At each site a winemaker is likely nearby to answer questions about growing wine using the region’s special varietals. Visitors can view operations, enjoy the grounds, and sample award winning wines and sparkling ciders carrying that special Iowa taste.
Enjoy the region’s designated scenic byways, alpine hills, and cold water streams full of trout. This exquisite hill country was spared recent glaciers thus leaving soils, slopes, caves and aquifers well-suited for irrigation, drainage, circulation, and sun to produce the best grapes.
The area is adorned with landscapes as selected by Artist of the Heartland, Grant Wood. We know you would enjoy the hospitality of the trail’s bed & breakfast partners, so consider staying the weekend.
Looking for a Unique Gift Idea?
Purchase 2009 Iowa Wine Trail Weekend Event Tickets or check with our partners for 2009 Iowa Wine Trail Package Opportunities.
Many thanks to all of you who participated in the November Trail Wide Event! Beautiful weather, great wine and great food!! The recipes and wine pairings for the November 2009 Wine & Food Weekend can be downloaded here, and the recipes and wine pairings for the April 2009 “Spring Into Iowa’s Local Foods” theme can be downloaded here.
April Wine Trail Event
Congratulations to the following two lucky wine trail travelers. They were drawn for the April Wine Trail event door prizes, which was one bottle of wine from each of the participating wineries. The wines were shipped directly to the winners.
The drawing winners are:
Jim Landgraff from Pella, IA and Dawn Carstensen of Charlotte, IA. Each winner visited the eight/nine wineries and completed the survey questions.
The Iowa Wine Trail draws door prize winners from persons who have attended the trail event, completed the evaluation on the back of the ticket, and turn them in at the last winery that they visit. One drawing is held from those persons who visited all nine wineries. The other winner is drawn from the total of all tickets turned in at the last winery visited. (Hint- Your odds of being drawn are greater if you visit all nine wineries!)
Plan now for the November 2009 Weekend Event to be held November 7-8, 2009.
November Wine and Food Weekend
November 7-8, 2009
“A World of Food with Iowa Wines”
November 7 - 8, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday
At each winery, adventurous wine tasters will be able to SAMPLE foods from around the world paired with unique, locally made wines. Plan to sample such world foods at the nines wineries as follows: Daly Creek Winery, Anamosa - Argentina, Eagles Landing Winery, Marquette - German, Engelbrecht Family Winery, Fredericksburg and Park Farm Winery, Bankston - Ireland, Sutliff Cider Company, Lisbon - Tex-Mex, Tabor Home Vineyards, Baldwin - France, Wallace Winery, West Branch - The World, Wide River Winery, Clinton - Italy, and Winneshiek Wildberry Winery, Decorah - Caribbean.
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL
Purchase 3 tickets before November 2009 and get the 4th one FREE!
Two-Day Tickets
$25 each in advance (purchased before November 5th)
or $35 the day of the event.
Single Day Tickets
$20 each (purchased before November 5th) or $35 the day of the event.
Tickets can be purchased at participating winery tasting rooms,
online by clicking here, or by calling 563-557-3727.