February Awards

The 2009 Hilton Head Island Festival was held at the Hilton Oceanfront Resort & Spa in Hilton Head Island, SC, February 5 - 8, 2009. The International Wine Judging and Competition was specifically for table and sparkling wines available in commercial quantities.
Crofut Winery earned a Gold medal for our 2006 Frontenac and a Silver medal for our 2007 Essence du Nord. World class wines in Minnesota? You Betcha!


Speaking of cool awards, Unbridled Chocolates was recently listed as one of the five best chocolate shops in New England. Our gift shop is the only place you can buy these chocolates west of the Mississippi! You can check out the award at:
http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-01/interact/10things/chocolates

Don't miss our Black Friday Sale!

Join us for our one-of-a-kind Wine Sale on Friday, Nov. 28 from 11 am to 7 pm, Saturday, Nov. 29 from 10 am to 6 pm, and Sunday, Nov. 30 from noon to 6 pm.

You'll receive 15% off award-winning Crofut wine and 10% all all gift items including our 100% Belgian chocolates. We'll have people on hand to help you assemble custom gift baskets, too.
You must bring this page in to receive your discounts. Offer expires 11/30/08.

Sunday Sunset

Hi everyone, this is Don.
I was out working in the vineyard this past Sunday night and the sky was going crazy. It was gorgeous! I grabbed the camera and snapped a few shots. Hopefully the folks coming for the vineyard dinners will get to enjoy a few sunsets like this, too!

Frog on the Blog

I just came across this old photo from BB (Before Blog). We came across a little frog in the vineyard, clinging tightly to a cluster of grapes. He stuck around long enough for a few photos before he hopped away unharmed.

Thanks to the 10/11 Harvesters!

Thanks to everyone who showed up on Saturday, October 11 for our final harvest event. It was a gorgeous day. We had a lot of volunteers and a lot of fun.

A special thanks to Mary Pearson for taking some gorgeous photos of the event. I'm sticking a few photos below, but you can click on the Picasa link in the Title to see more, larger photos of the day. Thanks to all our hard workers -- hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did!
-Don

Harvest is COOKING!

Things are really cooking at the winery. Harvest is moving quite nicely (Big thanks for all the friends and family helping out). Just one more week of harvesting, crushing, pressing and introducing the marriage of yeast and juice. From that marriage and honeymoon will blossom our new 2008 vintage wines in a few weeks.
Want to pick? Email us and tell us you want to participate. Get ready for Don's cooking on the 11th of October! You pick. Don preps family foods, and you enjoy family food and wine after a MN morning harvest. Take home a bottle of our wine and a full tummy after a morning of playing (er... harvesting) the grapes.

Last Sunday we were also pleased to have clan Dollarhide in to visit and enjoy the fine fall day. We even got them to stay still long enough for the one photo!

Art in the Vineyard

It was a great time last Sunday when Tammy and the Waseca Artist Guild came in to "paint" the vineyard...and Lucky the goat too! Tammy and the Waseca artists group were with us on Sunday and their watercolor paintings in the vineyard were quite special. I can't wait to see some of the finished products. If you want to come and paint in the vineyard ...or just paint the goat, please let us know.

Here are some photos of guild members "painting the vineyard."