Wyoming Wine Club Guide

Wyoming Wine Clubs...
Offering That Wild Wyoming Wine

The Cowboy State is a rural and wild region and is dead last out of all fifty states for population. You may think it lacks cultural opportunities because it has no real metropolitan areas and concentrates on livestock and agriculture.

Well, grapes are considered an agricultural product!

There must be a few wine drinkers in Big Wonderful Wyoming. The state has 3 wineries for you to look into the next time you visit Yellowstone. But get ready to cowboy up, because these wines and wineries are just as wild as the rest of Wyoming!

Wyoming Wine History

Truly, there isn't much. Wyoming was one of the last states in the nation to establish its first commercial winery that could legally sell wine to you and me.

The cooler climate (median high annual temperature of 54°) is more suited for fruit wines, but Wyoming is coming alive with the grape production. We just have to give it a little more time.

The Wineries of Wyoming

Wyoming does offer you some wines made from real Wyoming grapes, however all but one winery substitute grapes grown in Colorado for many of their bottles.

Table Mountain Winery uses 100% Wyoming grapes, and you can enjoy varietals such as Frontenac Gris, Elvira, Valiant and Foch.

Table Mountain also has a great sense of humor that will keep you grinning as you are sipping! You can try their award winning S.O.B. wine (Son of a Berry), or maybe the Rooster Red or Cowgirl Blush. These wines are unique and fun.

Irvin Cellar has only 2 grape wines made entirely from Wyoming grapes, but you will probably find their Wyoming Red and their Wyoming White interesting. Irvin is more into fruit wines and some pretty wild combos. Pay close attention to the labels - you will find some wacky wines at Irvin. :-)

Some of the Irvin Cellar wines are traditional-esque fruit wines, such as peach, plum cherry and apricot. They also have several types of chokecherry wine, one of which is blended with rhubarb, which you will find oddly sweet and tart. When you add Pumpkin, Currant, Bullberry and Jalapeno Pepper Raisin to the mix, you've really got something.

To top things off, Irvin takes almost all of their fruit wines and blends them into honey wines, making some fruit flavored mead called melomel. If that sounds interesting to you, you should try it. The raspberry is awesome.

Wyoming Wine Clubs

With so few wineries in the state of Wyoming, there are really only 2 Wyoming wine clubs for you to choose from.

Wyoming Wines, for example, is more of a club than a winery. However, you must live close by to take advantage of the hand-picked bottles from the operators, Bob, Judi and Jeremy. They don’t ship.

With this wine club, you can pick up 2 bottles of their favorite wines each month for a fee of between $20 and $25. The selections are usually thematic, coming from a single wine maker or possibly representing a winemaking region or grape varietal.

Wyoming Wines is for you if you live in Wyoming and love wine, not if you love wine made in Wyoming. You can get all sorts of wine from this club.

Irvin Cellar offers a Wyoming wine club also, but you will again have to live close by. If you get the Irvin Cellar Winery Club Card, you can buy 11 bottles and get the 12th bottle free. It's that easy.

In general, Wyoming wines are young, fresh and a little bit raw, a great reflection of the state itself.

If you want an experience that is uniquely Wyoming, try Terry Ranch Cellar. It has its own wine... along with an RV park and a bison tour. You may think that's a little weird, but it's a perfectly natural combination in wild Wyoming! :-)