Woodmans
Black River Falls
Hanson's IGA
Eau Claire
Festival Foods (Birch Street)
Greenwood
Main Street Vintage
Holmen
Festival Foods
LaCrosse
Festival Foods
Peoples Food Co-op
St. Joe Country Market
Lake Nokomis
Lake Nokomis Cranberries Inc*
Mauston
J & S Liquor
Union Street Liquor Festival
Manitowish Waters
Cranberry Square*
Millston
Millston Quick Mart
Onalaska
Festival Foods
Woodmans
Port Edwards
Rubi Reds
Reedsburg
Viking Liquor
Sparta
Amish Cheese House
Eddie's Convenience Store
Sparta Travel Center
Stratford
Straford Family Foods
Tomah
Caseys Wine and Spirits
Molters Fresh Market
Highway 21 BP Station
Highway 21 Shell
Warrens
The Berry Vine
Three Bears Lodge and Resort
Warrens Mall
Discover Cranberries and Cafe
* seasonal
Wine Tastings
5 samples for $5.00, 10 samples for $10.00. You can also order a glass of wine or a bottle of wine to consume at the Tasting Room. You can certainly also buy wine to go. With the purchase of 6 bottles of wine, you get a free engraved 6 bottle carrier bag. A case of wine will be a discount of 10%. We also have some non alcohol options. We have meat and cheese snacks for purchase from St. Joe Meat Market, LaCrosse.
From the Tomah Journal - 12/2/11
By Steve Rundio
Editor
Diana Hobson believes in using local ingredients to make something good.
Hobson, a La Crosse winemaker, put Wisconsin cranberries on the national wine map after winning three medals Nov. 2 at the International Women’s Wine Competition in California. Her cranberries came from the Habelman Bros. Cranberry Co. of Tomah.
“I have a lot of fun working with local products and local producers,” said Hobson, who owns and operates DnA Vintners. “I’m a firm believer you need to work with what you have locally.”
A native of Sparta, Hobson has spent most of her working life in Monroe County as a social worker and probation and parole officer. She didn’t start making wine until 2001 and didn’t sell her first bottle until 2006. She got her first cranberries from Craig and Kathy Jensen of Warrens.
“The first wine wasn’t particularly good, but I was intrigued by the process,” she said. “I read a lot of books and talked to a lot of other winemakers.”
Hobson refined her process and developed three wines:
*Frost Watch Red. Semi-sweet with a crisp finish.
*Sweet Paradise. A sweet and smooth wine. She named the wine after Paradise Valley Cranberries, the operation owned by the Jensens.
*Chocolate Paradise. A wine infused with a natural chocolate flavoring described as “dessert in a glass.”
Chocolate Paradise was the star of the Fruit Wine category in California, where it won the only double gold medal. Frost Watch Red won a silver medal and Sweet Paradise won a bronze.