gar_n_mer's Wine Journal Entries
Millner Heritage Vineyard & Winery (written Jul 14, 2017)
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Favorite Wine: white; Little Iza red; Neuhaus
Our second visit and just as enjoyable as our first visit. Don Milner was comical and lead everyone in the tasting room in a sing along.Good wine and a good time.
Carlos Creek Winery (written Apr 03, 2017)
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Favorite Wine: Vintner's Blend
Tasting is $8 or $9 depending on the selection. Wine is over-rated, over priced and extremely average. Most of the reds sampled were California grapes, little Minnesota grown...very disappointing.
Lavender Crest Winery (written Apr 02, 2016)
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Favorite Wine: Colona White
Crow River Winery (written Apr 02, 2016)
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Woodland Hill Winery (written Oct 29, 2013)
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Favorite Wine: Days End
Lovely rural setting for vineyard and winery. The tasting room is well appointed and the bar and bar-back are beautifully crafted wood, but the tasting room is small and can comfortably handle only a dozen or so people. The red wine offering was poor to fair and whites were only average.
Engelbrecht Family Winery and Vineyards (written Jul 28, 2013)
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Favorite Wine: Frederick's Red
The tasting room was browser friendly with novelties and antiques, but the wine was unremarkable.
Cannon River Winery (written Jul 28, 2013)
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Tasting room and winery were nicely appointed and fun to browse. We found their wine to be quite average and nothing was remarkable.
Crow River Winery (written Jul 13, 2013)
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Favorite Wine: Marquette
Wines from estate grown grapes and local fruit are very good. Chardonnay, Cabernet, Merlot grapes from California yield good but average wine. They make a garlic wine for cooking that is wonderful. Winery, tasting room and staff made this a very enjoyable afternoon.
Parley Lake Winery (written Oct 23, 2011)
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Wines are average at best...dry wines with little character.
Millner Heritage Vineyard & Winery (written Aug 15, 2011)
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This was a delightful visit. Don and the rest of the Millner family have a passion for their wines and made the visit enjoyable. Our favorites Little Iza and Mullner Weiss.
WineHaven Winery (written Aug 08, 2011)
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Favorite Wine: Deer Garden Red, Deer Garden Blush, Rhubarb
We visit Winehaven several times a year, especially Raspberry and Rhubard tasting days. Wonderful setting, friendly staff and very enjoyable wine.
Danzinger Vineyards (written Jul 21, 2011)
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Favorite Wine: dessert wines are incredible
Beautiful setting over looking the Mississippi River valley. Vines are 6 years old and selling wine only 2 years. Wine was superb. Dave Danzinger (co-owner) is a marvelous host and helped make this a winery we will visit again.
Vernon Vineyards (written Jul 21, 2011)
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Favorite Wine: LaCrosse
Great location in the middle of no where, GPS helps. The dry and semi-sweet reds were very delightful. The Edleweiss was the best in white.
Winneshiek Wildberry Winery (written Jul 21, 2011)
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Wonderful setting...refurbished barn in the middle of Iowa farmland. The wine (mostly berry) was unremakable and lacked character. We were disappointed.
Seven Hawks Vineyards (written Jul 21, 2011)
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Winery and B&B and we stayed the night. The wine was average, nothing noteworthy, but the LaCrescent Suite was great.
Eagles Landing Winery (written Jul 21, 2011)
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Favorite Wine: Mi Amor (chocolate infused Strawberry)
Their award winning reds (which is most of them)are truly enjoyable.Cindy and her staff are warm and friendly and make this a great stop.
Alexis Bailly Vineyard (written Jul 07, 2011)
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