Wine List

Seyval Blanc 2008
$14.99
Seyval Blanc 2008 $14.99

The Seyval Blanc is our premium white wine. Named for the French Horticulturist who developed the variety during WWI, the Seyval came to the United States in the 1960's when pioneers, like David Bailly, were looking for wine grapes that could be grown outside of the norms of Califonia. With its balance of clean bright fruit and a dry crisp finish, the Seyval is a wine that is both elegant and appealing.

STYLE:    A dry white table wine
ALCOHOL: 11%, no residual sweetness


$14.99

Country White
$12.99
Country White $12.99

Fruity, soft and slightly off dry, the Country White is an easy drinking wine to take pleasure in drinking everyday. Named for the Vin du Pays wines of France (translated as Country Wine) to reflect the regional wines that are distinctive and meant for local consumption. This is a charming wine meant to be drunk while the fruit is young and fresh. It has broad appeal and can be enjoyed with or without food. Serve well chilled.

STYLE: A semi-dry white table wine
ALCOHOL: 11%, Residual Sweetness: 1%


$12.99

Rosé Noir
$12.99
Rosé Noir $12.99

Our Rosé Noir wine is a delicious new wine, replacing the Country Rosé. More on the red side of a Rosé, it has a beautiful, light, garnet color, and lots of bright cherry fruit, soft and easy to drink.

Great for summer picnics, or, for when you're just looking for a wine to taste good! Serve well chilled.

Original painting of the winery by Minneapolis artist Mark Larson.


$12.99

Country Red
$14.99
Country Red $14.99

Blended from a variety of hearty grapes, we use both French and American hybrids that were developed for the type of cold climate where we grow our grapes. 
A dry red similar in style to the earthy wines of the Rhone Valley in France, the Country Red is light to medium bodied with a taste of cherries and a hint of spice. With no designation of grape, and no commitment to a single vintage, we are able to make a wine delightfully suited to our tastes. The Country Red is a wine with no pretense, just pure hedonistic pleasure in every bottle, meant for every day drinking, and styled to go with everyday meals.

STYLE: A dry red table wine
ALCOHOL: 12%, no residual sweetness


$14.99

Foch Nouveau 2009 (Seasonal, available
Nov-Dec. Only)
Foch Nouveau 2009 (Seasonal, available Nov-Dec. Only)
 
The first wine released from our 2009 vintage, the Nouveau is our celebration of harvest.  When most wines are aged to be drunk the following year, Nouveau is for enjoying at the end of our hard working season.  It’s light-body and fresh red berry fruit make for an easy drinking style.  Remember to drink it now, the Cinderella of wines is not long at the ball!
 

The label is designed annually by an art students from "Lifeworks", a local non-profit organization this year's label representing 3rd in our series. Lifeworks supports people with disabilities to live full and meaningful lives.


$12.99

Marechal Foch 2007
$16.99
Marechal Foch 2007 $16.99
 
The original grape planted in our vineyard, Marechal Foch was discovered by David Bailly in the Loire Valley of France and became the inspiration for starting our winery back home here in Minnesota. Named for the famous French General Foch from WWll, it has been our most decorated wine, winning over 35 national awards in competitions since our first vintage in 1978. Medium bodied with bold ripe fruit, the Foch has naturally soft tannins enhanced by a year aged in American oak barrels.   Drink now to enjoy its freshness, the wine will age well for another 2 – 3 years, rewarding with increased complexity of flavor. Perfectly matched with grilled foods, roasts, game, or pasta.
 
STYLE: A dry red table wine
ALCOHOL: 13%, no residual sweetness

$16.99

Frontenac 2008
$18.99
Frontenac 2008 $18.99

Our newest varietal, the Frontenac grape was developed at the University of Minnesota to survive the extremes of the Minnesota climate. We make a big, robust style of wine from this hardy grape, loaded with black berry fruit and a deep, richly pigmented color (a real tooth-stainer!). The wine is aged in 60% new oak barrels in order to give the wine a smoky, earthy balance to its intensity of fruit. We use a majority of Minnesota grown oak, staves produced from trees grown in Houston County south of Winona, then sent to California to be coopered into barrels by a French company.
For the first time, we will not have to bury our vines to get them through the winter. The Frontenac has been recorded as surviving -35 degrees below zero! This is a promising new wine for our future.

STYLE: A dry red table wine
ALCOHOL: 13%, no residual sweetness


$18.99

Voyageur 2008
$21.99
Voyageur 2008 $21.99

Our Voyageur wine is produced of Old and New World varieties, blended to create a wine with bold, opulent flavors that pairs well with hearty pastas, wild game, grilled meats and vegetables. A blend of the fruit from our oldest (30 year old) vines and some of our newest plantings (in their 5th-8th year) this is a complex, full bodied wine that is supple on the palate.

Voyageur is a big, opulent and rich red wine that uses a blend of Alexis Bailly grapes -- old world French grapes and new varieties developed by the University of Minnesota.

MEDALS AWARDED TO VOYAGEUR
"Best Wine of North America" - Vino Challenge, Atlanta
Gold - Vino Challenge, Atlanta
Silver - Grand Harvest Awards, New York
Silver - International Eastern Wine Competition, New York
Silver - Indiana International Wine Competition
Bronze - National Women's Wine Competition
Bronze - American Wine Society

STYLE: A bold red wine of blended old world french grapes and new varieties developed to survive Minnesota winters
ALCOHOL: 13%, no residual sweetness


$21.99

Hastings Reserve
$18.99
Hastings Reserve $18.99

A delicious sweet and fortified dessert wine, our Hastings Reserve is made in the style of a ruby Port, emphasizing both youthful fruit and a maturity of flavor. With an abundance of jammy, berry fruit, the rich, raisiny flavor is enhanced by the warm and spirituous addition of brandy.
Made from a number of different grape varieties including Frontenac, Marechal Foch and Leon Millot, we blend wines made from several vintages, each wine aged for at least 2 years and up to 8 years in a combination of French, American and old whiskey barrels. The result is a wine of magnificent complexity and depth of flavor. Drinkable upon release, this dessert wine can age in the bottle for 5 to 10 years and provide the patient drinker with an even more incredible intensity of flavor to savor.

STYLE: A red fortified sweet dessert wine
ALCOHOL: 18%, Residual Sweetness: 8%

 


$18.99

Bailly's Chocolate Reserve
$19.99
Bailly's Chocolate Reserve $19.99

NEW! A port-styled chocolate flavored dessert wine, our Bailly's Chocolate Reserve is a delicious mix of our traditional ruby red Hasting Reserve with a seductive kiss of natural chocolate. Serve over ice cream, use as a cocktail mix, or serve alone as a sexy after-dinner drink or with biscotti for an easy, delectable dessert.

STYLE: A red fortified sweet dessert wine

ALCOHOL: 18%, Residual Sweetness 8%


$19.99

Ratafia
$19.99
Ratafia $19.99

This delightful orange-infused wine blends rich, red grapes with tangy citrus and notes of vanilla. Toasty. Spicy. Nutty. A unique fortified wine that works as an aperitif, cocktail or dessert. The bottle comes from Italy, but the wine is an ABV original.

STYLE: A red fortified sweet dessert wine infused with other fruits, herbs and spices
ALCOHOL: 19%, Residual Sweetness: 12%


$19.99

Isis - Ice Wine
$29.99
Isis - Ice Wine $29.99

ISIS is made in the style of the famous Eiswein from Germany. The grapes are frozen, but it is only the water that freezes, and is then removed as ice. What is left behind is a wonderfully sweet juice to ferment into the luscious nectar known as ISIS.
Reminiscent of ripe apricots and peaches, citrus fruits and honey, the crisp acids maintained in our cold climate naturally balance our ISIS - Ice Wine. As we continue to struggle with the white grapes we traditionally have used to make this wine ( many of them have died off in our vineyard from lack of snow cover in winter), we look forward to the new varieties we are planting to replace them beginning this year with the LaCrescent, a variety developed at the University of Minnesota.

STYLE: A sweet white wine
ALCOHOL: 14%, Residual Sweetness: 14%


$29.99

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