Wine region
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a wine region in United States, home to 4 wineries, producing red, rose, white wines.
On this page
Wisconsin's 4 wineries make roughly equal red and white wine; wines carry AVA designation.
About the Wisconsin region
- Location
- Wisconsin wine refers to wine made from grapes grown in the U.S.
- Climate
- NOAA NCEI Climate at a Glance encodes a 1991–2020 statewide mean annual temperature of 43.8 °F for Wisconsin.
- Soils
- In USDA NRCS Soil Data Access results for Wisconsin survey areas, Alfisols have the largest weighted component acreage, approximately 15,721,854 acres.
Region facts sourced from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance statewide time series for Wisconsin, retrieved 2026-07-11. (U.S. Government work / Public Domain (17 U.S.C. § 105)), USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Data Access query for Wisconsin (WI survey-area prefix), retrieved 2026-07-11. (U.S. Government work / Public Domain (17 U.S.C. § 105)), Wikipedia contributors, "Wisconsin wine", Wikipedia, revision 1357184349, retrieved 2026-07-11. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International).
Wine profile
Wisconsin is roughly split, making substantial red (46%) and white (46%) wine.
13 distinct Wisconsin wines tracked, spanning the colours and styles below.
- Red6 · 46%
- White6 · 46%
- Rose1 · 8%
Types: Still.
Representative Wisconsin wines
Selected from stable product-to-region relationships for diversity — not a claim that these are the region's best wines.
- Wild Hills Winery — Moondance
- Wild Hills Winery — Prairie Flame
- Wild Hills Winery — Windsong Rose
- Wild Hills Winery — Wild River Red
- Wild Hills Winery — Solstice
- Wild Hills Winery — Driftless Sunset
- Wild Hills Winery — Failing Leaves
- Wild Hills Winery — La Crosse
Quality designations
Wines here carry AVA status — a controlled quality designation.
- AVAAmerican Viticultural Area — a defined US grape-growing region, marking where the grapes were grown.
United States wine designations
- AVA
- An American viticultural area is a U.S.-government-recognized delimited grape-growing area.
Understanding the wine data
- Designation
- The protected-origin or administrative category associated with the wine, interpreted using country-aware rules. The same abbreviation can mean different things in different countries, so we only show the meaning approved for that country.
How this ranking is built
Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
How to choose a good Wisconsin wine
Look for the AVA designation — it signals a controlled-origin Wisconsin wine.
FAQs
- Where is Wisconsin?
- Wisconsin wine refers to wine made from grapes grown in the U.S. state of Wisconsin .
- What do the designation terms on Wisconsin wines mean?
- AVA: An American viticultural area is a U.S.-government-recognized delimited grape-growing area. These terms describe geographical or regulatory categories; they do not by themselves guarantee that one producer or bottle is better than another.
- How are wineries and producers selected for Wisconsin?
- Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
- How are representative Wisconsin wines selected?
- Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
- How much wine data does WhatDrink have for Wisconsin?
- The current regional catalogue contains 13 linked wines from 4 linked producers. Counts describe WhatDrink catalogue coverage and may change as source data is refreshed.
Regional data is aggregated from wine directory and product-catalogue sources; grape and style associations reflect characteristic varieties and may vary by producer and vintage.