Our family owned winery is located on 160 acres and produces over 20 award winning wines. We're especially proud of our Minnesota Nice Wines: Hot Dish Red, Wobegon White and You Betcha Blush. Open year round, we offer complimentary tours daily and live music every weekend. Wine sampling is available anytime we're open or enjoy one of our many seasonal activities, such as Orchard, Vineyard or Maze explorations, Surrey Bike Rentals, Dog Sled Rides and Ski & Snow-Shoe trails. Our annual festivals include our Grape Stomp held the third weekend of September and our Applefest held MEA weekend. Wine is just more fun at Carlos Creek!

Carlos Creek Winery     |     320.846.5443
• www.carloscreekwinery.com
• Open 7 days a week, year-round
• Wine tasting is $5 and includes a souvenir glass
• Scavenger Hunt available for kids

Kim & I moved from Baudette, Minnesota on March 28, 2008 to buy Carlos Creek. When we told friends and family that we were moving south to buy a winery, they pictured Napa or Sonoma. Boy were they surprised when we told them the winery was in Alexandria, Minnesota!

Since our arrival we have been asked countless times, “What possessed you to buy a winery?”

Truth be told, our journey here was perhaps a bit unconventional.

Neither of us grew up in the wine business. We’d never made a bottle of home-made wine. We’d never even grown a grape vine. Our inspiration came from a single bottle of very special wine.

Kim, a woodcarver, had carved a beautiful mantel for a woman who worked for the Robert Mondavi Winery. She sent him a bottle of Opus One with a note that read, “Our masterpiece for your masterpiece.” The wine, beautifully packaged, was clearly worth more than any other bottle of wine we had ever owned. Its arrival marked the beginning of our wine journey which included visits to wineries, studying, buying and enjoying wines and, five years later, buying Carlos Creek. To toast our new purchase, we opened and enjoyed the wine that inspired it all - and we enjoyed every drop!

Now we find ourselves living surrounded by vines and orchards and blessed to have both our sons interested and actively involved in the winery. Tyler works at the winery as Director of Sales and is in charge of our Wine Club and sales to liquor stores and restaurants. Samuel builds and maintains our web-site and e-mail programs while studying to be a biomedical engineer in Michigan. You’ll usually find Kim in the vineyard or his woodshop and on the weekends, he’s likely to be your tour guide. I head up our marketing and PR, including designing our wine labels and writing copy like this for our web site. You haven’t experienced Alexandria, until you’ve been to Carlos Creek!

Wine is just more fun at Carlos Creek Winery!

 DIRECTIONS:

From the North: •Take MN highway 29 south. •Turn right onto onto County Road 5 in Miltona (The Lake Miltona Golf Club will be at the intersection) •At a T-intersection, take a left turn onto County Road 34. •Carlos Creek Winery will be on your left after 4.0 miles - look for white fencing.  From the South, East, or West: •Take I-94 to Alexandria (about 1:40 Southeast of Fargo/Moorhead or 2:00 Northwest of the Twin Cities). •Take the exit for MN highway 29 North, then follow 29 North through Alexandria. •Take a left at the intersection with 3rd Ave (County Road 82). Go .7 miles. •Turn right onto County Road 22 at the stoplights. Stay on 22 for 2.3 miles. •Turn right onto County Road 104 (there will be a billboard for Arrowwood resort across the intersection). Stay on 104 for 1.5 miles. •At the T-intersection, turn left onto County Road 34. •Carlos Creek Winery will be on your right 1.9 miles down the road - look for white fencing.

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