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About Us
The Crofut Family Winery &
Vineyard is a 63-acre farm and vineyard. There are 6.5 acres
of commercial vines planted in 2003-2004, including University of
Minnesota varieties: Frontenac, Frontenac Gris, and LaCrescent. The
test vineyard, located at the entrance to the property, is assessing
experimental grape vine varieties for hardiness, disease resistance
and of course, taste!
The Crofut family has been making wine for
three generations. Don has won numerous awards for his winemaking at State
and County Fairs. Visitors will see the grape harvest and processing of
grapes for juice and wine production.
Check our our virtual tour of the vineyard!
Live vineyard tours include a tour of our vineyards,
winemaking facility, cask room and bottling area with an expert guide and
conclude with a wine tasting. All guests are welcome to walk the vineyards;
guests younger than 21 are restricted from the wine tasting. Please bring a driver’s
license or other proper identification. Call us at 952-492-3227 to
schedule your tour!
About the Crofut Family Vineyards
The primary family
vineyard consists of 6.5 acres on the property. The top three acres is
underlain by Ordovician limestone that was not eroded; Webster alluvial clay
loam on top. We also have 20 acres (Echo Creek) at Delhi MN (2 hours west on
the Minnesota river). This vineyard is on granitic soil underlain by
ordovician (hard white) limestone.
Our partner growers:
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Zimmermans, South of
Waseca
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Zieglers 4 acres
just north of St. Peter
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Goettl’s north of
Montgomery
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Lau’s 2 acres west
of Waseca.
To come online in 2009-2010:
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Double V Vineyard Pat
Valencour, 3 miles west of winery location
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Montgomery’s, 2
miles south of our winery location
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At the Crofut
Family Winery, winemaking is an art and a science. Grapes are picked by
hand and wines are aged in oak barrels. Crofut Family Winery houses the bottling, labeling and distribution of the wines.
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