Have you experienced local Iowa La Crescent wine yet? If not, you don’t know what you’ve been missing, but we’re here to share more about La Crescent grapes and wine grown and produced right here in Iowa!

La Crescent - Sounds like: La CreS-Sent

If you like Chardonnay or Pinot Grigio, then you’d LOVE La Crescent!

Looks Like: Yellow-amber, fairly small berries. Produces a pale yellow wine.

Smells Like: Intense apricot, peach and citrus.

Tastes Like: Dry, off-dry, semi-sweet and/or sweet white wines with fruity apricot, peach, & citrusy notes.

La Crescent is a wonderfully versatile wine grape, producing excellent wines from dry to sweet! La Crescent is a light-skinned hybrid variety developed at the University of Minnesota and released in the early 2000s.

Fun fact! - - > La Crescent is named after a small town in Minnesota, the grape varietal was bred to resist extremely cold climates. Aside from the Midwest states, it is also grown in the northern states of New York and Vermont. Like most hybrids, La Crescent has admirable resistance to most diseases, although it can still be susceptible to downy mildew in humid climates.

La Crescent is ideal for the production of off-dry and semi-sweet wines and is apt to retain some acidity, which balances this style. It is a relatively aromatic variety and exhibits flavors of stonefruits, such as peach, citrus fruits or even tropical flavors of pineapple.

Want to taste some La Crescent yourself?

Ask for Iowa wines at your local grocery store, or next time you dine out, ask your server for some Iowa La Crescent wine!

Check out the Iowa La Crescent wines available to be shipped directly to your home.