Tabor Home Vineyards & Winery

Tabor Home Vineyards & Winery
3570 67th Street
Baldwin, Iowa
USA 52207
Phone: (877) 673-3131
http://www.taborhomewinery.com/

Contact: Paul & Martha Tabor
Email: [email protected]

TABOR HOME is a family owned estate winery located in Jackson County Iowa near Baldwin. Vineyards and winery are located on our family’s 1860’s farmstead. Dr. Paul Tabor, winemaker and manager, is the fifth generation Tabor to make his livelihood here. Family members and neighbors refer to our farmstead as the “Home Place”, and the name TABOR HOME was chosen to highlight this historical perspective. Tabor Home Vineyards and Winery was bonded in 1996 and we are the oldest estate winery (a winery with its own vineyards) in Iowa.
Our 6-acre vineyards were planted in 1989. Red varieties in production are Marechal Foch, St. Croix and Catawba and Frontenac. La Crosse is our primary white grape with some Seyval Blanc in production. Newer plantings of La Crescent, Frontenac Gris, and Marquette varieties will begin to produce in 2009. We continually evaluate varieties from around the world for use in Iowa; TABOR HOME is the only commercial vineyard in Iowa to participate in a Midwest multi-state long-term viticulture research program to evaluate 32 newly released wine cultivars for use in the upper Midwest. This research program is directed by the Iowa State University Horticulture Department. The harvest from our vineyards produces 3000 gallons of wine or about 25% of our production. TABOR HOME has been a leader in helping new wine grape growers in the area. Beginning in 1996 we have held dozens of field seminars for prospective and new wine grape growers.
The winery was built in 1996 and expanded in 2001. The present annual production is about 4800 cases of wine. The present facility has the capacity to produce 12,000 cases. The tasting room and unique wine gift shop overlook vineyards, the Civil War era barn and miles of Iowa’s Grant Wood countryside.

Winemaker: Paul Tabor

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