Due to COVID-19 and the Wisconsin Stay At Home Order, we will be canceling the 2020 VIP Tours.
—-
Experience von Stiehl Winery as a VIP during our VIP Tour.
Purchase tickets below or by calling von Stiehl Winery at (920) 487-5208.
What to Expect:
The tour will start at von Stiehl Winery, where we will review our history and talk about the future happenings.
Then, we will walk over to our production facility where we invite you behind the scenes with one of our winemakers. This is a great time to ask them your questions or compliment them on your favorite wine. Also, depending on what is going on at production, you may have the chance to sample something from the tanks before it gets into the bottle.
After talking with the winemaker(s), we will head to the von Stiehl Winery century and a half-year-old cellars, followed by a private three-course pairing.
Tour will include short walks and multiple flights of stairs
Private wine & food pairing (varies by seasonal availability)
Cost: $30.00 (plus tax) – regardless of age. Must be 21 to sample wine.*
Limit 15 people per tour.
Tickets must be purchased by Monday before the tour date.
Closed-toe shoes are required.
How to Purchase Tickets?
Purchase tickets by calling the winery at (920) 487-5208.
Tickets are non-transferable. There are no refunds on VIP Tour tickets.
Can’t attend this one?
No reason to fret, the VIP Tour will be offered every Friday at 1:00 pm. View our list of available VIP tour dates by clicking -> here <-.
Looking for a place to stay?
Algoma has various locations for you to stay with their own unique offerings! View lodging.
Still have questions?
If you have a specific question not covered above, please feel free to contact our Tasting Room Manager, Patti, at patti@vonstiehl.com or by phone at (920)-487-5208 ext. 103.
Due to COVID-19 and the Wisconsin Stay At Home Order, we will be canceling the 2020 VIP Tours.
—-
Experience von Stiehl Winery as a VIP during our VIP Tour.
Purchase tickets below or by calling von Stiehl Winery at (920) 487-5208.
What to Expect:
The tour will start at von Stiehl Winery, where we will review our history and talk about the future happenings.
Then, we will walk over to our production facility where we invite you behind the scenes with one of our winemakers. This is a great time to ask them your questions or compliment them on your favorite wine. Also, depending on what is going on at production, you may have the chance to sample something from the tanks before it gets into the bottle.
After talking with the winemaker(s), we will head to the von Stiehl Winery century and a half-year-old cellars, followed by a private three-course pairing.
Tour will include short walks and multiple flights of stairs
Private wine & food pairing (varies by seasonal availability)
Cost: $30.00 (plus tax) – regardless of age. Must be 21 to sample wine.*
Limit 15 people per tour.
Tickets must be purchased by Monday before the tour date.
Closed-toe shoes are required.
How to Purchase Tickets?
Purchase tickets by calling the winery at (920) 487-5208.
Tickets are non-transferable. There are no refunds on VIP Tour tickets.
Can’t attend this one?
No reason to fret, the VIP Tour will be offered every Friday at 1:00 pm. View our list of available VIP tour dates by clicking -> here <-.
Looking for a place to stay?
Algoma has various locations for you to stay with their own unique offerings! View lodging.
Still have questions?
If you have a specific question not covered above, please feel free to contact our Tasting Room Manager, Patti, at patti@vonstiehl.com or by phone at (920)-487-5208 ext. 103.
Wine is the perfect gift for the holidays. We have multiple varieties of holiday gift boxes featuring wine, sweet or salty treats, cheese, crackers and logo tumblers. Our pre-made boxes are available online and at von Stiehl. Custom holiday gift boxes are also available to those who stop by the winery.
Our most popular pre-made boxes are all dressed up and ready to go. Pick your box or boxes and call your holiday shopping “DONE!” Stop by the winery today or visit our online store today!
Summer is winding down and fall is in the air. Our grapes are starting to plump and turn red with the late summer sunshine. This is the time of year when grapes start to produce their sugars in preparation for harvest. To celebrate harvest season, we look forward to Wet Whistle Wine Fest taking place September 13th and 14th. At this year’s festival, we hope to see you enjoy wine, music, and friends of new and old, all while helping to raise funds for the Community Improvement of Algoma.
In preparation for fall and the harvest, we have decided to feature our Sparkling Viognier & Chenin Blanc for September. It’s an even blend of Viognier and Chenin Blanc. When you enjoy this Brut style wine, you will taste notes of apricot and honeysuckle along with rich flavors of ripe white peach and mineral. The small bubbles will heighten your senses and cleanse your palate between courses. Pair this dry white with a garlic shrimp dish, your favorite sushi, or Thai cuisine. Chévre and Brie are also the perfect soft cheeses that are enhanced by the mouthful of tiny bubbles from the wine. We even suggest starting your Saturday morning by adding this wine to your favorite orange juice, or relax after work with this intensely satisfying dry white wine.
Stop by and enjoy a free sample of Sparkling Viognier & Chenin Blanc with your tastings all month long. In fact, stop by this Saturday as we wrap up ourSummer Concert Series with the Annie Rose Band. We have our wine flights and wine slushies ready for you to enjoy as well.
Just Desserts is truly heaven on earth—featuring von Stiehl wine & various sweet treats!!
Our annual Just Desserts will take place on Friday, November 16th from 6-8 pm. Enjoy a flight of five pre-selected von Stiehl wines paired with different sweet treats at this exclusive after hours event. Upon arrival, you’ll be greeted and brought to century and half year old tunnels to enjoy your dessert and wine flight.
After, before, or while enjoying your flight feel free to get crafty! For example, each guest will receive a glass to use for a candle holder, as shown below. We will provide the supplies needed, so you can get crafty here or take your glass home to decorate! Other craft opportunities will be available, stay tuned for updates.
Just Desserts Specials
Happy Hour! All night enjoy glasses of wine at $5 each of any von Stiehl wine on our complimentary or select tasting list.
15 % off all merchandise = A great time to get your holiday gift shopping done!
25% off case purchases
Admission
Admission is $28 and includes your dessert & wine flight pairing, exclusive specials and crafting supplies.
Event Details
Must be at least 21 to consume alcohol.
This event is an adult only event. Those under the age of 21 must be accompanied by an adult.
Going up and down stairs will be required, as this event will be held in our barrel-aging cellars.
Spots are limited! Buy tickets online* or call 800-955-5208 to RSVP by November 13th to be sure you have a spot at Just Desserts!
*Kewaunee County sales tax and an 85¢ online ticketing fee are added to e-commerce sales.
Looking for a place to stay during the weekend of Just Desserts? Find plenty ofhotel options in Algoma. If you would like to be within walking distance, we recommend staying at theHotel Stebbins.
If you have any questions, please contact our Director of Events, Rayanne, at rayanne@vonstiehl.com.
Welcome to the first page in the new chapter of von Stiehl Winery – in a 50 year old book that we’re still writing!
What makes the Sparkling Viognier & Chenin Blanc blend different from our past pressurized wines? The bubbles are added right here in Algoma. Before our 2016 bottling line, wineries of Wisconsin would ship their wines to a winery in Michigan to be sparkled. We like our neighbors to the east, but those shipping charges add up. In a way, our bubbles are green!
What does this new wine taste like? It’s a little on the dry side, so all you Brut drinkers out there can let out a little cheer, unless you’re reading this at home, then you can cheer loudly. Cue the winemaker’s description:
2016 Columbia Valley Viognier & Chenin Blanc
VIOGNIER 70% • CHENIN BLANC 30%
This textured and aromatic wine done in a Brut style offers sumptuous aromas of apricot and honeysuckle with rich flavors of white peach, ripe pear, and mineral. Pairs well with sushi, shellfish dishes, Thai, or softer cheeses such as Chevre’ and Brie.
This test batch was produced in a 160 case lot and will be available on our tasting menu this June, for $17.99/bottle.
You may only slightly recognize the label. We started with the base von Stiehl white label concept, and then reversed it to appear mainly black. The foil label is matched by a matte black foil capsule. Underneath is a new type of closure, developed to look like a champagne cork, but unscrew. This allows it to be easily re-closed should the rare occurrence happen that you don’t finish the bottle with friends.
The first sparkling wine of von Stiehl came in the mid ’90s in a white painted Holiday Wine bottle. You few historians might also remember the same wine under the Cherry Sparkle label for the summer time season.
Next came Sparkling Muscat. The Muscat Canelli grape makes for a fantastic sparkling semi-sweet wine. The branding eventually changed to Captain’s Walk Titletown Wine, and is a favorite of Green Bay and the peninsula.
If you’re still reading this, then here’s an extra nugget. Not only did we offer a Sparkling Holiday and Sparkling Cherry wine, but for a short period of time in the early 90s there was a Cranberry Esprit. That probably won’t come back, but who knows? Maybe a version will resurface as Hard Cranberry Cider!
We made it to our 50th winery anniversary. With that, a plethora of emotions are flying about. We made it. We’re here – we did it! From the days of flower children and Elvis to the age of smart-phones and millennial bosses. We survived it all.
From English Morello to Montmorency, cherry wine kept us alive for our first 25 years. Cherry wine was the mac ‘n’ cheese of our college years, and Vitis Vinifera filtered its way into most of our wine list by age 35 when we thought that we were becoming refined. Don’t be quick to judge; who hasn’t changed over 50 years?
Maybe you gulped sweet cherry wine from a screw-capped gauze-wrapped bottle under the Forestville bridge at age 16 and nobody knew. Perhaps you found that Kirsche and Coke made a mean mixer in your young adulthood and that’s what got you into von Stiehl wines. Hey, you can’t drink Zima all of the time.
Where did all of those years go? It was seriously just one day at a time. Filter on Mondays and Wednesdays; bottle on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Run the delivery truck on Thursday afternoons to Door County. The delivery truck was just a truck, a 1986 two tone red F150 with an H.O. 302, two gas tanks, chrome rims, and an ugly black cap that Dad put on to keep his sons humble. Saturdays and Sundays were spent in the tasting room and it all started over on Mondays.
There are too many memories to remember and there’s always too little time to talk when big talkers are in the room. These memoirs are the tip of the iceberg and our story is ready to be told. We’d like to give that a shot on March 18, with a winery anniversary celebration. At first, we thought about a fancy dinner, but we decided it better to stick to a daytime event.
We’ve invited Skaliwags to put on a buffet luncheon and the River City Six to romance us with ragtime. In between the feasting and dancing, we’ll conduct three tours of the new and old production buildings. When we say we, we mean Aric and Brad (me), the owners. The boys… who grew up in the biz while their parents poured their souls into making monthly payments. The tour will be a real-life account of how 50 years went down presented by the boys that saw the last 36.
Leave your dress pants at home and put on a clean pair of blue jeans. Winery owners are always happier when dressing down. Come hear the story of how a winery is full of hard work and art work.
Please check out the winery Anniversary party details below and give us a call if you’d like to be one of the 90 in attendance. We hope that you can make it to share in the finale of the first fifty.
Event Date & Time: March 18, Noon to 5:30 pm
Location: 104 Steele Street (our production building), enter the service door by the loading dock on 1st Street.
Feasting: Skaliwags Lunch Buffet 12:30 pm. to 2:30 pm.
Tours: Sign up when calling for one of the following times. Noon, 2:15 pm., 3:30 pm. (These may not be exact.) Tours will include an account of the last 50 years at von Stiehl Winery by owners Aric and Brad Schmiling. We plan to crack open some tanks and pull some barrel samples for you to taste along the way.
Includes: One signed 50th Anniversary Calistoga Cabernet Sauvignon commemorative bottle per person ($50 value).
Event price: $75 per person.
Please call 920-487-5208 to reserve your tickets or join the waiting list if tickets sell out.
Planning to stay over and stay out of the car once you’re here? Visit the Algoma Chamber lodging list.
We know that you and your special someone will be headed out to dinner somewhere over the course of Valentine’s Day week, but what about the magic hours leading up to the main event?
Wouldn’t it be great to skip the usual chores and add a little more to your Valentine’s Day celebration?
Your experience awaits at von Stiehl Winery in Algoma where we’ll present you and your Valentine an indulgent, but inexpensive way to start the festivities. For $25 you’ll get a bottle of Naughty Girl wine, two Naughty Girl glasses, a box of chocolate truffles, and since you’ll need to stock up on wine for winter, a 10% discount on all purchases. This just may be the highlight of your Valentine’s Day weekend!
We’ll be offering the special for an extended range of days. Visit us February 10-19, to take advantage of this offer. No reservations are needed. Just show up when you’re ready. We are open from 10-4 every day.
If one day isn’t enough, you might enjoy staying for the weekend. There are plenty of great hotels and motels in Algoma. See the list here. We like the proximity of the Hotel Stebbins, just two blocks from the winery. The Stebbins is a full-service hotel, restaurant, and bar. Most everything is within walking distance in Algoma. They even have their own Valentine’s offer.
A steak at the Stebbins is always a great choice. We also recommend Skaliwag’s for food that’s five star in a crazy little dive bar. Enjoy a fantastic burger or pizza at the Algoma Pizza bowl, or choose from one of these dining options in Algoma.
Need another idea? Visit our brewery’s tap room before or after your Naughty Girl Pairing and dinner. If you want to skip the big dining scene, you can get a pizza in the tap room while you enjoy fresh Ahnapee Brewery beer.
There are lots of Valentine’s Day options available in Algoma, so make a day or an entire weekend out of it! We’ll look forward to seeing you!
We kept a winery in business until its 50th anniversary. With that, a plethora of emotions are flying about. We made it. We’re here – we did it! From the days of flower children and Elvis to the age of smart-phones and millennial bosses. We survived it all.
From English Morello to Montmorency, cherry wine kept us alive for our first 25 years. Cherry wine was the mac ‘n’ cheese of our college years, and Vitis Vinifera filtered its way into most of our wine list by age 35 when we thought that we were becoming refined. Don’t be quick to judge; who hasn’t changed over 50 years?
Maybe you gulped sweet cherry wine from a screw-capped gauze-wrapped bottle under the Forestville bridge at age 16 and nobody knew. Perhaps you found that Kirsche and Coke made a mean mixer in your young adulthood and that’s what got you into von Stiehl wines. Hey, you can’t drink Zima all of the time.
Where did all of those years go? It was seriously just one day at a time. Filter on Mondays and Wednesdays; bottle on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Run the delivery truck on Thursday afternoons to Door County. The delivery truck was just a truck, a 1986 two tone red F150 with an H.O. 302, two gas tanks, chrome rims, and an ugly black cap that Dad put on to keep his sons humble. Saturdays and Sundays were spent in the tasting room and it all started over on Mondays.
There are too many memories to remember and there’s always too little time to talk when big talkers are in the room. These memoirs are the tip of the iceberg and our story is ready to be told. We’d like to give that a shot on March 18, with a 50th anniversary celebration. At first, we thought about a fancy dinner, but we decided it better to stick to a daytime event.
We’ve invited Skaliwags to put on a buffet luncheon and the River City Six to romance us with ragtime. In between the feasting and dancing, we’ll conduct three tours of the new and old production buildings. When we say we, we mean Aric and Brad (me), the owners. The boys… who grew up in the biz while their parents poured their souls into making monthly payments. The tour will be a real-life account of how 50 years went down presented by the boys that saw the last 36.
Leave your dress pants at home and put on a clean pair of blue jeans. Winery owners are always happier when dressing down. Come hear the story of how a winery is full of hard work and art work.
Please check out the 50th Anniversary party details below and give us a call if you’d like to be one of the 90 in attendance. We hope that you can make it to share in the finale of the first fifty.
Event Date & Time: March 18, Noon to 5:30 pm
Location: 104 Steele Street (our production building), enter the service door by the loading dock on 1st Street.
Feasting: Skaliwags Lunch Buffet 12:30 pm. to 2:30 pm.
Tours: Sign up when calling for one of the following times. Noon, 2:15 pm., 3:30 pm. (These may not be exact.) Tours will include an account of the last 50 years at von Stiehl Winery by owners Aric and Brad Schmiling. We plan to crack open some tanks and pull some barrel samples for you to taste along the way.
Includes: One signed 50th Anniversary Calistoga Cabernet Sauvignon commemorative bottle per person ($50 value).
Event price: $75 per person.
Please call 920-487-5208 to reserve your tickets or join the waiting list if tickets sell out.
Planning to stay over and stay out of the car once you’re here? Visit the Algoma Chamber lodging list.
Many mysteries are at work in our production building, officially named “Over There.” There’s no shortage of unexplained noises coming from the upper floors of the pre-prohibition-era brothel. Stencil-lined walls and gunshot holes in the floor are clues to the origins of past mysteries. The tavern that lived Over There operated from 1902 through the late 1990s. During prohibition, it was noted that ‘near beer’ and soda were popular, but we think that much more was going on. Many owners and many stories passed those walls and we’re sure that many more will!
The present offers new conundrums, including how we’re going to fit 100 guests trying to solve the March 2016 Murder Mystery Dinner in the same room as our new bottling line Over There. Riddles like these are meant to be solved, as well as those brought to us by Without A Net Entertainment, who will again be entertaining us on the nights of March 11 and 12th. If you are interested in helping, please give us a call at 1-800-955-5208 to sign up for the show.
Our Murder Mystery begins with a wine reception at 6:00 pm, followed by the dinner theater at 6:30. During dinner you will enjoy three courses of catered food matched with von Stiehl wines. The murder mystery and laughter will continue through dinner, and should end around 8:30 pm.
Looking for a place to stay? Find plenty of hotels options in Algoma. Stay at the Hotel Stebbins if you’d like to be in walking distance. Enjoy the lake shore views of the Algoma Beach Motel. Don’t miss this evening of fun, food, and, of course, wine!
Cost: $49 per person. Visit the winery or call for reservations by March 6. 920.487.5208.
Sometimes Moscato is orange, but most of the time it is not. For von Stiehl, it is Orange Muscat, but it doesn’t have any oranges, and it isn’t Moscato. Follow?
Orange Muscat is a grape that you’ve probably never tasted. It is one of over 200 varieties of the Muscat, or Moscato, grape family that is best known in Italy. Orange Muscat is part of the family, but isn’t a Moscato. This small part of the family was popular in France at one time, and is now grown in the Veneto region of Italy. Fortunately for us, Orange Muscat is also grown in small amounts in California and Washington. This white grape exhibits Moscato characteristics with, you guessed it, a strong orange nose. Just to be sure that we are all on the same page, we do not add oranges or orange juice to the wine. Oranges are for breakfast… and possibly mimosas, when mixed with Titletown Wine (Sparkling Muscat).
Our Orange Muscat is sourced from Mendocino grape farmers. Now Mendocino is to Napa what Algoma is to Door County. Great quality without the price. A beautiful adventure without the hubbub. Lake breezes without the aroma of exhaust. A slower pace without the long lines.
Made from grapes grown in this laid-back and relaxed region, Orange Muscat is smooth and settled. Clear like your mind when you’re sitting on a warm beach. Sweet like the gratification of a hard day’s work at closing time. Here’s the winemaker’s version:
‘This rare and delicate Orange Muscat grape evokes aromas of peach, apricot, and orange blossoms. The flavors of tangelo and honey meld to produce a perfect accompaniment to cheesecake or peach cobbler á la mode. Residual Sugar 3.0% by weight.’
Just as White Zinfandel was the go-to semi-sweet and easy-to-drink wine of the 80s, wine drinkers are enjoying those virtues in Moscato today. While a limited amount was offered last year in a 500ml bottle, our Orange Muscat has grown up in quantity and is now wearing a full-size 750ml glass casing. Enjoy it for $14.99.
While all eyes may be on football during Super Bowl Sunday, our Super Bowl Wine and Small Plate event is the perfect pre-party way to spend your day!
Ladies of the Vine can now sign up for the Super Bowl event at von Stiehl on Super Bowl Sunday from 1:00pm to 3:00 PM, and still get to a Super Bowl party in time for the big game.
Our event features three small plates including salad, soup, and dessert, all paired with von Stiehl wines. The day will include a bucket raffle and discounts throughout the tasting room. Those discounts will include a free bottle on the purchase of six, and 25% off non-wine merchandise. The Super Bowl wine pairing discounts offer the perfect use for your envelope of cash from Christmas gift returns; find yourself something special at the Super Bowl Wine Pairing Party!
We plan to hold the Super Bowl Wine Pairing in the winery’s upstairs lounge, which is the perfect place to hide out on a February winter day!
The Ladies of the Vine is an easy-going group of gals with no membership fees or requirements! Simply attend a Ladies of the Vine event to get into the club. Benefits include special gatherings like this one, and an all-of-the-time discount of 10% on gift merchandise at the von Stiehl Winery.
It doesn’t matter if you are a football lover or football widow, the daytime is meant to give you an alternate experience on Super Bowl Sunday. Bring some friends or make some friends at this intimate event. It’s also a great time for many generations of family to gather in an easy-going environment.
Call now to reserve your spot as space is limited – 800-955-5208. Cost is $20/person.
If you plan to stay overnight, find plenty of hotels in Algoma. Stay at the Hotel Stebbins if you’d like to be in walking distance. Don’t miss this afternoon of fun, food, and, of course, wine!
