Still River Winery

Wine: Winery: Ambiance: Mar 12, 2012

Favorite Wine: Apple Ice Wine. (Home)

Someone's home with no set winery hours. They only make Apple Ice Wine. The couple there more than welcomed us into their winery and their home and gave us a full tour with a tasting of the apple wine even though we did not call ahead. Very pleasant to deal with and wine was delicious!

Wine: Winery: Ambiance: Jul 21, 2010

Favorite Wine: Apfel Eis (Apple Ice wine)

Here you get no choices, but for one Apfel Eis (Apple Ice wine). Finding Still River Winery is a fun drive through Harvard, MA's beautiful neighborhoods. The entire setting is a large home with an entrance through the doors of an antique furniture store restoration shop and into the basement where the winery’s glass jugs are lined between various walls of dripping cider, refrigerators, and filtration systems. Best of all, you’ll get to meet Wade Holtzman who admits having to tell the same stories of ice apple production hundreds of times per year. Still River Winery separates frozen water crystals from ice cold pressed cider and then slowly ferments the remaining cider at cold temperatures over a few months. The process entails over a bushel of apples in the making of a single 375 ml bottle. We left with a clutch of this deliciously sweet, hard to believe it is so good, Apfel Eis and as importantly, the fun in meeting such a welcoming vintner and host.