| Flint Ridge Vineyard Winery produces a range of wines to suit every taste, from dry red and white wines, in the traditional style of cool climate european winegrowing regions, to the local style of sweet red wines that have been home-vinified in midwestern cellars for generations. The majority of our wines are produced from grapes that are grown here on the property.
Honest winemakers will tell you that great wines are made in the vineyard. The weather, soil, and care of the developing fruit contributes more to the flavor of wine than intervention by the winemaker. The winemaker can ruin a wine or preserve the natural greatness of the grapes, but no amount of winemaker's alchemy can transform leaden grapes into a golden wine. While some of a winemakers tools provide stylistic distinctiveness and individuality to his wines, most of his meddling is in the attempt to resolve shortcomings in the quality of the grapes or his own wine-preserving blunders.
We pursue a minimalist approach to winemaking at Flint Ridge Vineyard, that is, we serve as guide and facilitator throughout the winemaking process, protecting the natural flavor of our grapes so that it may be experienced as wine. Winemaking is simply a way of preserving grapejuice, after all. We are preservationists, not creators.
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