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“n the beautiful hills of Southwest Wisconsin.”
Spurgeon Vineyards & Winery, located 5 miles west of Highland Wisconsin offers visitors a free sampling of our fine selection of Wines with Character, an opportunity to relax on our deck, or a tour of our facilities. Spurgeon Vineyards & Winery is located in the beautiful hills of Southwest Wisconsin. It is the nature of hills to drain away cold and water thus rendering the hilltops an excellent location to grow grapes. The winery is nestled in the valley below. Marys parents, Clarence & Anastasia Womack, purchased the land in the mid-1950s as an addition their home farm. It is an 80 acre tract that once was a homestead. Marys parents used the land to grow corn on the hilltops while they pastured beef cows on the hillsides. As Clarence and Ann started thinking of retirement, they sold this land to some newlyweds Glen and Mary. The year was 1977. That year Glen and Mary planted corn on the hilltops as well as a half row of grapes. In 1978 they made a serious dent in the planting of their vineyards by putting in 5 acres of grapes. This was followed by a 5 acre planting in 1979, another 5 acre planting in 1981 and a final acre in 1982. Each of those acres contains 600 or more vines. Grape vines will produce a small crop in their third year after planting. To deal with this crop, Glen and Mary began building and equipping the original winery in 1980. Their first harvest from the 1978 planting was in the autumn of 1981. After making the wine from those grapes and ageing it for several months, the Spurgeons bottled their first vintage. On May 1, 1982, Glen and Mary opened their doors and poured their first commercial wines for customers to taste. And so began the on-going adventures.
Spurgeon vineyard is one of the first wineries in Wisconsin the owner said he made his first wine in 1982. The wines were mediocre but the tasting is free and he lets you taste as many as you... Read more
They had a couple of decent wines. Scenery on the way there was beautiful (good thing too, since it took FOREVER to get there. But, overall, I wasn't terribly impressed. The atmosphere of the... Read more
Oh my God. The Ruby Lady is sooooooo good. Friendly staff. Free taste testing. Well worth the beautiful scenic drive. Read more
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