Visit The Iowa Wine Trail by traversing the upper Mississippi Valley wine region at Anamosa, Baldwin, Bankston, Clinton, Decorah, Lisbon, Marquette, 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 “Heirloom Family Cuisines and Iowa Wine” theme can be downloaded by clicking here: recipes
November Event Door Prize Winners
Congratulations to these two lucky wine trail travelers. They were drawn for the November Wine Trail event door prizes which will be one bottle of wine from each of the participating wineries. The wines will be shipped directly to the winners.
The drawing winners are:
Heidi Kain from Shakopee MN who visited all eight wineries during the November event.
Jan Williams of Milan IL who was a single day participant.
The Iowa Wine Trail draws door prize winners from persons that fill out the evaluation on the back of the tickets and turn them in at the last winery they visit. One drawing is held from those people who visited all eight 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 eight wineries!)
Plan now for the April 2009 Weekend Event to be held April 25-26, 2009.
April Wine and Food Weekend
April 25 & 26, 2009
10:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. both Saturday and Sunday
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL
Purchase 3 tickets before April, 2009 and get the 4th one FREE!
Two-Day Tickets
$25.00 each in advance (purchased before April 22nd)
or $35 the day of the event.
Single Day Tickets
$20 each (purchased before April 22nd) or $25 the day of the event.
Tickets can be purchased at participating winery tasting rooms,
online by clicking here, or by calling 563-557-3727.
Prefer not to drive The Iowa Wine Trail??
Iowa Wine Tours, Inc. can provide group transportation for trail-wide events or daily wine trail tours.
Contact: Iowa Wine Tours, Inc.
563-581-8123