Iron River

Iron River Profile and History

White Winter Winery was founded in 1996 on the principals of sustainability, and utilization, to use what our region produces to make high quality products and to build coalitions and partnerships with growers, producers and other businesses. All of our products use locally grown fruit and honey whenever possible. We "work out" from our location until we find what we need. In this way we are able to sustain not only ourselves but our neighbors as well. Our belief has always been that we should use what is grown in our own back yard, not ship it in from across the country or across the world. Too many times we, as consumers, look only for the cheapest price without considering the hidden costs of buying out of our area. Costs such as the hydrocarbon emissions of shipping cheap, mass grown, corporate farm raised produce across the country. Costs of importing cheap honey harvested in foreign countries at a fraction of the actual production cost and dumped into the U.S. market. Costs of sub-standard wages and living conditions for people who have little choice if they want any work at all, just so we can have the cheapest price. Iron River, Wisconsin sits on the edge of one of the premier bramble fruit growing regions in the state, if not the entire country. The Bayfield peninsula, on the shores of Lake Superior, is home to a unique 12 square mile micro climate which produces some of the finest fruit and honey in the region. This unique climate allows for long cool nights and warm days extending the growing season by several weeks.