Winter Winery Hours

Hi everyone, starting January 1st, we will be closed for the winter season.

Private tastings will be available, please call or e-mail the winery to set up an appointment

Thanks to all of our customers for a great 2010 season. A special thanks to our return customers for making our job so enjoyable. If anyone needs to schedule a tasting or event, please make sure to call or e-mail the winery.

Thanks again- Hinterland Vineyards

phone: 320-847-3060
e-mail: hinterland@hcinet.net

December Wine and Dines

Hi everyone the wine and dine dates for December are:

December 9th
December 16th

If interested please call or e-mail

Phone: 320-847-3060
e-mail: hinterland@hcinet.net

Thank you and we hope to see you soon!

November

Hi everyone, its been a while since the last post. We cannot believe that it is all ready the middle of November. All of our wine is bulk aging and waiting to be fined. The vineyard is completely dormant now, with no leaves in sight. Due to our mild fall weather, the vines were able to change color, and go dormant on their own without a killing frost. This is the first time since we planted the vineyard that this has happened. The warm temperatures made a very picturesque fall in the vineyard. We are still meeting new people all the time, and our wine trail is picking up in popularity. (heartlandwinetrailmn.com) The suppers for November are all booked solid, but there is another scheduled for December 9th. If you would like to reserve a seat, please call the winery at 320-847-3060.

Our new barrel room and storage facility is all most complete. This will be a nice addition for us, and help us save some needed space in the winery. We ordered a few more barrels this year, and are anticipating the wines that are aging out from 2009.

Thanks to all who have been following the blog, and we hope to hear from you soon!!

October

Hi everyone, we cannot believe that it's October all ready. The grapes are all harvested, and we are well into the wine making process. We are still busy every weekend, with new visitors all the time. Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we have decided to do a little fundraising for a local group (hotties 4 hooters) who will be walking in the 3-day Susan G Koman walk for breast cancer. Every weekend, we will have a pink ribbon on select wines, of which a percent for every bottle purchased will be donated to the girls.

The wine and dine dates for November are: November 4th- Comfort Foods
November 18th- Harvest Feast

Wine and Dine August

The wine and dine for August is the 19th. If anyone would like to reserve seats, please call or e-mail for reservations.

We are still working hard in the vineyard. Tucking and training the vines is an endless job. The vines look all right for going through major frost in the spring, and baseball sized hail in the summer. The grape loss is not huge, but we can definitely tell the numbers are down from last year.

Thanks to everyone who has stopped this summer, and to those who are following this blog. Hopefully we will get the 2009 Frontenac bottled this week. It has been aging out on two different types of oak, and will be blended back together before bottling. Please stop out and enjoy a glass!!

Thank you - Hinterland Vineyards

Wine and Dine

The next wine and dine is on July 15th. The menu is not yet complete, but i can tell you that the main entree will be steak. The price may be a little more per person this time, due to the cut of meat. If interested, please send an e-mail or call the winery. Thank you.

Also at this time i would like to write a little about what we are currently doing in the vineyard. The past couple of weeks we have been de-suckering the vines (pulling the shoots that are trying to re-grow from the ground). We have also been tucking the vines into the trellis system. We do this so that the fruit is exposed to the sunlight. This helps the fruit ripen to its maximum potential. The vines made it through the storms that rained down lemon sized hail, so we are very thankful for that. The winery has been busy, so thanks to everyone who has stopped by so far this spring. I would also like to invite everyone to bring out there own picnic, and use the patio. We can sell by the glass, and by the bottle, so feel free to bring out a good book and have a relaxing afternoon.

Once again, thank you and we hope to see you soon!!

Seats Still Available

There are still 6 seats available for the supper on the 24th. The theme for the night is Mexican food and sangria's. If anyone is interested please call the winery 320-847-3060 or e-mail hinterland@hcinet.net

Thank you, and we hope to see you soon!!

Wine and Dine

Hi everyone, the wine and dine for this month is very short notice and i apologize. We had a full supper without advertising, but unfortunately some people were unable to make it last minute. There are 6 seats still available, so if anyone can make it this Thursday (MAY 20th), please let me know and i will reserve the seats for you.

e-mail hinterland@hcinet.net

Thank you!!

Opening Again In May

Hi everyone (and Richard), we are opening again May 1st, so i hope we have a nice warm weekend for everyone to drop by and have a glass of wine. We have been very busy the past 3 weeks bottling our 2010 vintages. Thanks to all the help we have been getting from family and friends!!
We are also trying to get a vineyard wagon made, so we can take groups up to 12 people through the vineyard on a tasting tour!! We hope to have this completed by June. Please keep checking the blog for new dinner dates. We plan to have two in may, so keep your eyes open.
We still have some wines left from our 2009 vintage, so if anyone is interested, they are on sale for $8.00 a bottle.
Thanks to everyone for reading, and we hope to see you soon!!

March is here!!!!

Wow, March is here all ready!!! We are still very busy in the winery and in the vineyard. We are trying to get out in the vineyard to prune as much as possible, but the snowfall is making that a challenge this year. Nearly half the vines are covered in snow (wow about 4 feet) but we keep trudging through the deep snow to get our work done. The winery work during this time of year includes: filtering, lab testing for alcohol levels etc, rackings, and trying to get everything set up for bottling. We are trying to get new labels for this year, so make sure to stop by and check them out. We also have a couple new wines on the list, which should be very enjoyable come spring. We are doing a huge sale on our 2008 Frontenac Gris, so if you are interested, please send an e-mail my way and i can give you all the details. Also if anyone is interested there is a link so that you get updated every time i write on the blog. It is located on the top left of this page^^^^ Thanks to everyone who has stopped in and we hope to hear from you soon.

Hi everyone, it has been a while since the last post. We are still very busy in the winery and in the vineyard. We have been using the nice weather the past couple weeks to prune in the vineyard. We have close to 1.5 acres pruned, and only 8 more to go (sounds good doesn't it lol). The wine is outside cold stabilizing, and we plan on doing our next racking soon. We are very excited for this spring so we can see everyone again. We hope everyone will stop out a bunch this season to watch the vineyard change from just a few buds in the spring, to thriving plants bearing fruit in the fall. We have added another outlet to our list, we are now located in Green Valley Liquor near Marshall, so if you are in that area please swing by and try one of our products. I would also like to take this time to tell everyone that we will be having our next wine and dine on Feb. 18th. If you would like to reserve a seat for this event, please e-mail or call the winery and leave your contact information. Thank you all for reading this post, and we hope to see you soon!!

Hi everyone, we are still doing tastings for private parties over the winter season. Please call or e-mail for further information. Things in the winery are going well. We will start pruning in the vineyard as soon as we get some weather above twenty degrees. Make sure to keep checking the blog for updates and news. We will be doing another supper for valentines, so keep your eyes open for when we set the date.

Thank you!!

(wine now available at west side in willmar and green valley near marshall)