Chateau St Croix Winery & Vineyard

One of the best wineries we’ve found in the area. They also rotate their selection so not only do uou have some solid standbys, but there is always something interesting to try. Friendly staff, nice cheese counter that serves a decent meat, cheese, and cracker platter formthe price. Well worth the stop!

I really liked this winery in terms of sweeter wines than Dragonfly Winery. The wine tasting is only $ 6 per person for 5 – 6 selections. This was a lot cheaper than Dragonfly Winery however my fiancée liked the wines at Dragonfly. I actually liked the wines here since there were more sweeter wines to my liking. The wow factor is really the outside since the inside is a bit drab with stuffed deer head and flags. Anyways, it took us only 15 minutes to do the tasting and walk around the grounds. Totally worth it to visit this place but unfortunately this place closes early at 5PM.

This place used to be a favorite. The salmon plate with a glass of their Thorough bread red was really nice. Event dinners were always hit or miss but we had some really good food and great times here. The owners used to live in the coach house behind the Château bldg. Not sure what is up any more. I don’t care about being served on a paper plate but now the salmon plate is an unappetizing globe of smoked salmon. The cheese plate is pretty dry and tasteless. The wait staff doesn’t seem to care. Had one nice woman who served us wine and she did warn me that the thorough bred red changed. For sure it had. The price per bottle went up to like $ 27 a bottle and the glass I had tasted like cheap grape juice. This time we had brought some guests from the city. Needless to say, they were not impressed. I guess the life cycle on this place is about run out like so many places: they start out great, get a loyal following like is, and go downhill. The owner no longer appears to live in the coach house behind the winery. Maybe that says it all. We won’t be back. Can’t believe how much money I’ve spent on this place over the years. I feel cheated.

Nice ambience… $ 6 for 5 tastings. My favorite was the Cheesehead White… $ 16 per bottle. They have more reds than white so this is probably better for red-​wine lovers. In addition, the red wines are generally $ 25+ per bottle, so budget accordingly.

I purchased the Groupon and it is what I would have spent anyhow for tastings and a snack so I did not feel ripped off. However they are very «tight-as$ed» with the cheese and truffles it comes with — they have plates already made up and you get perhaps 8 – 10 crackers all delicious I think probably Carr’s. 5 small pieces of cheese proably about 2 ounces of cheese total and both truffles I had were delicious but I did not get to pick them and they were not the 3.00 ones in the case. I enjoyed every wine I had however and would certainly go back and just purchase a glass or bottle to enjoy. I purchased a bottle of the Merlot because you could not «taste» it as it was only sold by the bottle for 25.00. It was decent but not as good as the other wines I had tasted that day. They have plenty of seating areas for everyone indoors and out. It is a little out of the town so it is a gorgeous drive and the colors of the trees are absolutely gorgeous this time of year. The staff could do a better job at talking to the visitors — I understand this is a busy winery and they probably get tired of making small talk but that is the nature of this business.

This Winery, when driving in, makes you feel like you are heading to a beautiful castle! Grapes line the driveway, beautiful cement lions and benches almost makes you feel like you are in Ireland or some England. I couldn’t wait to open the door to my castle!
We open the big door and inside, you come to realize that this poor castle is having an identity crisis! The inside does not match the outside. There are a few mismatched tables inside with Deer Heads on the wall and NO, this is not the only reason I didn’t like the interior. Nothing seemed to fit together. I liked the bar. It was pretty. They had a few high tables with stools that seemed too modern for the Castle and then one larger table in the middle of the room which fit more with the Castle concept. There is a small deli which serves cheese and chocolates.
To the back is a canopy area with tables and a reception area for weddings which overlook the vineyard. It looked like a nice venue for a party.
Service was horrible. We had a groupon and it was for a wine tasting and cheese and truffle platter. No one acknowledged us for what seemed like a long time before we finally bullied our way to the bar area. A woman finally helped us but she most definitely was not warm and fuzzy. The wines we were able to choose our tastings from (5), were very limited, all red, and mostly dry. We threw almost every single tasting in the «reject» bucket. I did not like one wine I tasted.
The cheese and truffle platter was a paper plate with an assortment of cheeses, some dry, hard, crackers, and one tiny unwrapped truffle, and one ferrero rocher. I fought for the Ferrero Rocher but my niece said the truffle was «Ok». Definitely not worth getting but the girls in the deli were the nicest in the bunch and even gave us some extra cheese.
I liked the glass that we were able to keep!!! It was a nice big wine glass with the Winery’s name engraved. The nicest biggest glass of the day but woman can not live on Glass alone! With no good wine to fill it, I more than likely will not return!

Best winery that I have been to in the midwest to date! Super cute little castle in the country — nice setting, medieval decorations, etc. I loved it.
The wine — also amazing — they get their grapes mostly from cali and some they grow — but let’s be honest — the MN grapes 80% of the time just don’t seem to produce that great of wine. They have a lot of local art for sale.
The cheese and cracker platter was really delcious with an assortment of unique cheeses — and the wine — oh the wine — wow — It was good — definitely as good as or better than many that I have had out in cali — they know how to make wine there.
For a tasting you get 5 tokens for the tastes — but at least for us — they didn’t really take the tokens all the time, so we really got to taste all we wanted — which was great! And don’t worry — they were repaid handsomely since I brough home 5 bottles and my friends both got 4. . musta been drunk :) — but seriously — its just that good.
I’m excited to go back in the spring and see the garden out front that was covered by snow — and they also have a spring and fall festival — looking forward to more trips up that way!

We were driving by and saw a sign for the winery. There were about 3 other couples in the main tasting room while we were there, and the man behind the tasting area gave us his full attention and explained the history of the winery. He told us to walk around and see the horses and the grounds. It is definitely the smallest winery I have visited, but the building’s exterior is beautiful, and would be a wonderful setting for a small private event. The wine was decent, but then again, I’m not always a fan of Midwestern wines. It is definitely worth the trip if you are in the area!