Wineries & Meaderies

Connecticut’s Wineries and Meaderies

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The Connecticut Wine Trail has been a state sponsored thing for almost as long as CTMQ has been a thing. This has been very good for the state’s wineries, as they’ve had a passport program (with incredible prizes) for many years – and people love passport programs. The number of wineries in Connecticut seems to increase by a few every year or two, and many are sort of destinations; as in, beautiful patios on hillsides at which to enjoy some snacks and wine while watching the sunset destinations.

It’s pretty tough to operate a winery in New England so most local wineries import Chilean or Californian grapes to round out their wines – really no different from brewers using hops from New Zealand or Washington. In fact, grapes and hops from elsewhere are very often superior anyway. Most of my visits linked below were from well over a decade ago, so please forgive any youthful exuberance and/or terrible pictures.

Connecticut’s Wineries

Links take you to my visits

Bethlehem Vineyard, Bethlehem
Fitch Claremont Vineyard B&B, Bozrah (Closed)
Maywood Gardens Winery, Bridgewater (Private estate)
Digrazia Vineyards, Brookfield
Chamard Vineyard, Clinton
Priam Vineyard, Colchester
Heartstone Farm & Winery, Columbia
Cassidy Hill Vineyard, Coventry
Shelter Rock Winery, Danbury
Staehly Farm Winery, East Haddam
R Dee Winery, Enfield
Brignole Vineyards, East Granby
Arrowhead Acres Winery, Franklin
Crystal Ridge Winery, Glastonbury
Joseph Preli Farm Winery, Glastonbury
Miranda Vineyard, Goshen
Sunset Meadow Vineyard, Goshen
Lost Acres Vineyard, Granby
Bishops Orchards Winery, Guilford
Gio Valley Vineyards (Not open to the public)
Southern Connecticut Wine Company, Killingworth
Lebanon Green Vineyards, Lebanon
Holmberg Orchards, Ledyard
Maugle Sierra Vineyards, Ledyard
Heritage Trail Vineyards, Lisbon (Closed)
Haight-Brown Vineyard, Litchfield
Sunset Hill Vineyard, Lyme
Chateau Le’ Gari’, Marlborough
Connecticut Valley Winery, New Hartford
Jerram Winery, New Hartford
Aquila’s Nest Vineyards, Newtown
McLaughlin Vineyards, Newtown (Closed)
Rosabianca Vineyards, North Branford
Rose Vineyards and Winery, North Branford
Land of Nod Winery, North Canaan
Coppola Wine Enterprises, North Haven
Jonathan Edwards Winery, North Stonington
Stappa Vineyard, Orange (Not yet open)
Sharpe Hill Vineyard, Pomfret
Arrigoni Vineyard, Portland
Dalice Elizabeth Winery, Preston
Preston Ridge Vineyard, Preston
Umpawaug Farm Winery, Redding
The Vineyard at Hilly Land, Scotland
Jones Winery, Shelton
White Silo Winery, Sherman
Rosedale Vineyard, Simsbury
Blue Heron Vineyard at Foster Farm, South Windsor (not yet open)
Saltwater Farms Vineyard, Stonington
Stonington Vineyards, Stonington
Gouveia Vineyard, Wallingford
Paradise Hills Vineyard, Wallingford
Hopkins Vineyard, Warren
Spring Hill Vineyards, Washington
North Winds Vineyard, Watertown (Closed)
Hawk Ridge Winery, Watertown
Savino Vineyards, Woodbridge
Black Lion Vineyard, Woodbury (Probably not opening)
Walker Road Vineyard, Woodbury
Taylor Brook Winery, Woodstock

Meaderies

Dragonfire Meadery, Coventry (Not yet open)
Nordic Moon Meadery, Ellington
Bergen House, Middletown
Mad Moose Mead, South Windsor (Not yet open)
Barrett’s Legacy Mead, Sprague (Not yet open)

Wine-like Hard Cider:

(For carbonated beer-like hard cider, go here.)

Hogans Cider Mill, Burlington
Deercrest Farm, Glastonbury
Clark’s Farms at Bushy Hill, Granby
Bishop’s Orchards, Guilford
Holmberg Orchards, Ledyard
BF Clyde’s Cider Mill, Stonington
Cidery at Averill Farm, Washington

The Connecticut Wine Trail
Check out pictures of Hoang drinking wine at a bunch of wineries

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