Botham Vineyards & Winery

Beautiful countryside, bucolic environment, and peacefulness. Add to this a yummy selection of dry to sweet regionally produced wines and you have Botham vineyards. You can have a small complimentary wine tasting or for five dollars taste every wine in the house. Or try having a glass on their terrace with a cheese tray. Great for groups as well as single and couple wine aficionados. Join their case club and take some home to enjoy.

Love this winery! It’s a vineyard, too, so the beauty of the vines adds to the great wine. They have a really nice assortment of vino that seems to be tailored to any palate (though I do love a nice dry red myself). The staff always seems so welcoming — it doesn’t matter if its a slow day at the shop, or if they are holding an event and are crazy busy. I especially love that everyone is knowledgeable about the wine they are serving. If I’m going to drink wine, I want to buy it and taste it while listening to people who actually enjoy it! It’s always nice when the owners are out at the special events, too.

2013 Wine-​apalooza Tour! For the past 3 years, 30 of my closest friends and I have rented a bus and spent a day gallivanting through the Wisconsin countryside visiting wineries. We’ve found a lot of good/​fun wineries, occasionally a really good winery, but today we found a favorite winery!
The owners/​vintners, Sarah and Peter Botham, are a charming, personable couple doing good things with vines. The wines they make comes from Wisconsin grapes, grapes they grow – not wine made in Wisconsin with grapes from somewhere else.
The drive to Botham is lovely. When you turn the final corner to go to the vineyard, you see grape vines lining the hills – lots of oohs and aahs. The tasting barn is large and comfortable with an outdoor area that’s great for picnics or just sitting around with friends and sipping a nice glass.
Yes, they have complimentary tastings. The Field 3 Red is amazing! I’m not a red drinker, but I gave a bottle to a friend who was totally knocked out by this wine. The Cupola White did a happy dance in my mouth.
I’m not going to mention names (my mother said it wasn’t nice), but there is another winery sort of up the road a’piece that has a lot of nice flowers –however, it lacks the soul and commitment that we felt at Botham.

Whenever I go here I feel like Im transported to the vineyards in CA. They always have fun events going on. The car show at the end of the summer is my favorite. Can pack a picnic, listen to music, look at classic cars with a bottle of wins (s). Your bound to find a wine that you fancy. They are now selling Acala Farms Cottonseed oil which you can find in the tasting room along with other gifts items and wine tasting.
Check you local liquor store if you can’t make it out to the winery.

A great Wisconsin winery that isn’t too sweet on the pallette.
The better Wisconsin wines are known for being fruity and sweet. Which is not a bad thing. I like me some fruity wines on occassion. But I think Botham puts Wisconsin on the map with some excellent wines that are bit drier than their local brethren.
Something else I see a lot from Wisconsin wineries is the importing of Cabernet, Zinfandel, or Chardonnay grapes… and then competing with those California varietals. Personally, I’ve never had a Wisconsin Cab or Zin that could hold its own against California. Good? Yes. But for the price it costs Wisconsin to produce a good red, I can get a better one from Cali for half the price. It’s just a fact of economics. Sorry Wisconsin.
Enter Botham.
They don’t kid themselves. They are Wisconsin. But they also don’t add to an already saturated market of fruit wines… nor do they try to go up against the west-​coast giants. They are doing their own Wisconsin thing, and they are doing it well. Botham’s foundation is a nice set of semi-​dry wines, and a few others to round out their selection.
Prices are reasonable, and the winery is nice with a cool public patio. The shop has a number of other items for sale besides their wine — jams and jellies included. I’ve been making an annual trip to the winery for the last few years. And they are always welcoming and friendly. We pack a lunch, do a little tasting, and then chill on the patio for a little bit until it’s time to head back to the four-​one-​four.
If you can’t make it to the winery, definitely pick up a bottle of Botham at the liquor store.

I love this winery and their wines. I’ve made a least a half-​dozen trips there, and have friends that come from 250 miles away to visit this winery. Great white wines, nice atmosphere. Good outside seating and we’ve been there when they’ve had bands that were pretty good.