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Spring 2024
Wine and Spirits
New Releases and Featured Products
AVAILABLE:
Wine Club Members -Saturday April 20th:
General Release -Saturday May 4th:
2023 Baco Noir
A dry red wine full of red fruit aromas and flavors. This medium bodied wine will appeal to those who enjoy wines from the Beaujolais Region. Baco Noir can develop a subtle smokiness after a few years of aging. Makes an excellent pairing with pasta or pork sausage. Try pairing with different types of gourmet hamburgers.
AVAILABLE NOW:
A three pack of our new Snow Farm Distillery products. A great gift for the spirit lover that enjoys the quality of Vermont made products that are distilled on site at our winery/distillery. Enjoy straight, on the rocks or in your favorite cocktails. This pack includes:
1- 750ml bottle Snow Farm Distillery Gin, 1- 200ml bottle Snow Farm Distillery Grappa, 1- 375ml bottle Snow Farm Distillery Maple Liqueur
**Our Spirit products are only available for pickup at this time. You may preorder for fast pickup using the “add to cart” and checkout feature on our shopping page.
Hours
Tasting Room Hours
Open for wine and spirit tastings,
wine by the glass, and bottle purchases.
Tasting Room Hours:
12pm-5pm Fridays
11am-5pm Saturdays and Sundays
Monday – Thursday by appointment
Call (802) 324-5507
Hours As Of May 1st
11am-5pm Seven Days A Week
190 West Shore Road
South Hero, Vermont
802-372-9463
*RESERVATIONS for our Tasting Room are recommended for groups of 8 or larger and can be made by calling our tasting room at (802)372-9463. For groups of larger than 20, please call our event coordinator, Nick Lane, to make special arrangements at (802)324-5507. Large walk-in groups will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.
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What’s Happening
Plan Your Visit To The Champlain Islands
WHETHER YOU’RE A LOCAL OR YOU’RE PLANNING TO VISIT VERMONT, A TRIP TO THE CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS IS A MUST-DO.
With plenty of ways to enjoy the great outdoors, shops to explore and lots of tasty local places to stop for a snack, you will have fun filled days every time you visit. Use our Plan A Visit page to help you discover all of the things you want to do on your Island getaway.
Try biking your way around the Islands!
Park your car at Snow Farm for the day and pop in for a glass of wine and some snacks when you return from your ride!
Download your single day bike pass to put in your windshield for parking while you go biking for the day HERE.
Current Tasting Room Hours
12 noon-5pm Fridays
11am-5pm Saturdays and Sundays
May 1st Tasting Room Hours
11am-5pm seven days a week
Snowfarm Vineyard & Distillery
190 West Shore Road, South Hero VT
802-372-9463
Latest Promos
At the Tasting Room and online
WINE CLUBS
If you or someone you know loves Snow Farm wines, what could be better than a membership to one of our Wine Clubs! There is no better gift than excellent wine, and a Club Membership is the gift that keeps on giving.
Sign up now for FREE and take advantage of all these great benefits:
- 3, 6 or 12 bottle customizable wine release, 3 times per year.
- Exclusive discounts on all wine purchases
- Complimentary standard wine tastings at the vineyard for club member and a guest.
- Special access to pre-release, limited production wines.
- And More!
Visit our Wine Club page to find out all the details and to sign up.
SAVE ON WINE
Save big on the purchase of a case!
Visit the tasting room or shop online at snowfarm.com and purchase 12 bottles or more in any assortment and receive a fantastic discount!
Tasting Room: Discount automatically applied at checkout.
Online: Discount automatically applied at checkout.
Of Note
Recipes and Pairings
BUTTERY MAPLE APPLE CAKE:
Ingredients
BUTTER APPLES:
- 3 apples (granny smith and macintosh), peeled, cored, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces
- 1/4 cup (Dark or Grade B) maple syrup
- 1/4 cup sugar
CAKE:
- 4 tablespoons room temperature unsalted butter
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 3/4 cups maple syrup
- 3 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 cup milk, at room temperature
DIRECTIONS:
- Toss apples with lemon juice and salt. In large skillet, melt butter over medium heat until starts to foam. Stir gently and cook until the foam subsides and solids start to brown.
- Add apples, syrup, and sugar and sauté until just tender, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat. With slotted spoon, transfer apples to plate, leaving juices in skillet.
- Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Grease 9-inch springform pan with butter. Line bottom of pan with parchment paper round and brush with butter.
- In medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, and nutmeg; set aside.
- In large bowl, beat 4 tablespoons butter and oil on medium speed for ~2 to 3 minutes. Add maple syrup and continue beating until thick and pale, ~3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Decrease speed to low and add flour mixture in three batches, alternating with milk. Scrape bowl with rubber spatula as needed. Increase speed to medium and beat mixture just until combined, 20 to 30 seconds.
- Scrape batter into prepared pan. Bake 30 minutes until top is set and beginning to brown. Top with apples and continue baking until cake tester inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 45 to 60 minutes longer.
- Transfer cake to cooling rack and cool in pan 10 minutes. Release and remove springform.
- Bring to simmer apple drippings over medium-high heat. Cook until thickened, bubbly, and reduced to about 1⁄4 cup. Immediately drizzle over cake along with more maple syrup (to taste).
- Cool cake for about 45 minutes and serve warm with ice cream and Snow Farm Apple Dessert Wine. Cake may also be cooled completely and served at room temperature.
Get your Apple Dessert wine HERE
Updates
News from the Winemaker
WINERY AND DISTILLERY NEWS
Wine:
We are currently working on the wines you will be enjoying this summer! The quality of our grapes was excellent last fall and have turned into some delightful wines. We plan to make a dessert wine with some of the Vidal Blanc grapes we harvested and will keep you posted as to its progress. You can also look forward to another batch of Apple Dessert wine this year.
Very soon we will be releasing our Baco Noir and shortly after our spring and summer favorite: Rosè. We also have a few surprises in the works in the Distillery and can’t wait for those to be ready for you to try.
Distillery:
We have also been hard at work in the production of more distillery products. It has been a good year to do a bit of experimenting and we will take advantage of the winter season to try some new batches of spirits.
If you haven’t gotten to try our newly released products: Gin, a very limited Grappa and a Maple Liqueur, I highly recommend you make the drive to South Hero to taste these one of a kind spirits.
Available now in our Tasting Room at 190 West Shore Road in South Hero, Vermont, our alcohol is made from our own grapes and we plan to continue to make a variety of spirits that will appeal to many.
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I’ve visited over 30 wineries in the past five years located anywhere from the West to the East coast, and I must say that one of the loveliest unpretentious wineries has been Snow Farm Vineyard in South Hero, Vermont.