Check out this animated GIF from our 2016 harvest!
pictured: Amanda, Lisa, Will, and Steve
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Tradition
This specialty Marquette is a limited annual offering of just one barrel. Each year we will add new wine to the barrel from our latest vendemmia, or grape harvest, by using the solera process for aging. Using a fractional blending method means that this limited Marquette will be a special mixture of ages, with its average age gradually increasing as we repeat this process over years to come. This method also ensures that each bottle will always have a little of the original Marquette from our first year as a winery t...
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The Vineyard on the Prairie
The Vineyard on the Prairie
2016 Harvest
Join us for our 2016 Grape Harvest at Old Folsom Vineyard this Labor Day weekend! It's the most fun work of the year when we pick grapes the old fashioned way - with your helping hands.
We'll start at 9:00 am on Saturday, Sept. 3, and go throughout the weekend until we've picked them all.
Lunch will be provided, including beverages. If you have any extra 5-gallon buckets, you can bring one along to sit on. Also remember sun screen, hat, sun glasses, and appropriate footwear (flip-flops are not recommended).
The harvest will be small this year and may only last one day, depending...
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Firehouse Wine Cellars presents Party in the Vineyard: 2016
The third annual Firehouse Wine Cellars Party in the Vineyard will take place at Old Folsom Vineyard on Wednesday, September 7th. We are looking forward to an evening of great wine, great food and friends!
*Available to Firehouse Mug Club and Hook & Ladder Wine Club members only. Stop in to Firehouse Wine Cellars to sign up!
Tickets are $30 and include:
Dinner
All you can drink wine and beer
Live Music by James Van Nuys & Carrie Bartsch
Transportation to the vineyard from Firehouse Wine Cellars
Our first departure is a 5PM with following pick-ups until 6PM
Transpo...
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A New Look for OldFolsomVineyard.com
In 2010, the year of Old Folsom Vineyard's first harvest, Kelsye designed and hand-coded our very first website (pictured above). We've come a long ways in those past six years--and so has the world wide web--so we are excited to share with you the latest rendition of our site. With profiles of the wine made from OFV grapes, to stories from the prairie and upcoming events, we hope that our new site does a better job of providing the kind of information you find useful and interesting.
Should you have any suggestions or encounter any problems with our site, please email us at oldfolsomvineya...
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The Vineyard on the Prairie
The Vineyard on the Prairie
The American
The fruits of our harvests are now available at the Firehouse Wine Cellars in downtown Rapid City. The American is 100% Marquette wine from Old Folsom Vineyard grapes.With notes of brown sugar and almond on the nose and green pepper, tart choke-cherry, sweet beets, and red delicious apple on the palate, The American goes great with wild game. Stop in to have a taste!
"Nearly 100 years ago, my grandfather, Antonio Finco, emigrated to this country on a ship called America from the port of Genoa, Italy. Like many others, he left his home and all that was familiar to start a new life in a str...
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