Not Your Typical Winery

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​Wonderful wine, cozy tasting room, charming country setting, vineyard views. We've got your winery expectations covered. But with some ingenious twists. 
     Besides being a winery, we are a licensed trout hatchery. We grow grapes and trout (we’re not named Trout Springs for nothing.) Makes sense--trout are the wine of fish, after all.
     Originality and creativity are a way of life at Trout Springs Winery. We offer: 
* Estate wine, which means we use our own grapes (not all Wisconsin wineries do). 
*  Our own draft, craft ​​beer.
*  ​Grape powder, cheese infused with our grape powder, and chocolate made with our grape powder by world-famous Seroogy’s Chocolates in Green Bay.
*  Fine dining events.
*  Glamping (see below).​
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Glamping? It's Better Than it Sounds!

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​​     For those romantics and nature lovers who think camping is cool but not for you—no bed, no hotel amenities, no way—we’ve introduced something that could make happy campers out of you: glamour camping, or glamping as it's called.
​     Our spacious tent is perched on a platform and outfitted with a queen size bed and furniture, refrigerator, microwave, lights. Meals are optional, wine essential. ​For more information about our glamping packages, click here.​ 

We Turned the Fox Valley into Napa Valley
(and Were Named Winery of the Year for That)

      Trout Springs Winery is the birthplace of the Wisconsin Ledge. That’s a real big deal in the wine world.
     Long story short, we grow great grapes because our area’s temperate climate rivals that of some of the best grape-growing regions on earth. Like Napa Valley. The Federal Government officially identifies prime grape-producing locations as American Viticultural Areas (AVA).
     We figured wine lovers should know about the pedigree of our grapes. So, with proof and paperwork in hand, we went to the Fed. In the winter of 2005 just after opening the doors at TSW, Steve J. DeBaker, owner and winemaker, petitioned the Federal Government to establish just under 2.5-million acres to be designated a prime grape-growing region based upon the Niagara Escarpment.  After several years of numerous evaluations, more paperwork, and persistence, a petition was passed in 2012 establishing the Wisconsin Ledge, a bona fide AVA—just like Napa Valley—in the land of Lambeau, beer, and booyah.
​     And for that we were named the 2014 Winery of The Year by the Wisconsin Grape Growers Association.​ (Read more about the Wisconsin Ledge here.)

News & Events

Our new event space is ready to rent! Get the details here.

Trout Springs Ice Wine in the News
Jan. 4, 2018 ... WFRV-TV Local 5  in Green Bay recently highlighted our ice wine making process. (Watch it here).

Trout Springs Winery Named 2017 Business Champions of Conservation 
For our remarkably successful sustainability practices, the Lake Michigan Stakeholders (LMS) and Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership chose Trout Springs Winery as Business Champions of Conservation for 2017.
     ​We received the award Aug. 11 at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc.
     The LMS environmental awards honor those who have demonstrated a commitment to environmental excellence, leadership, and accomplishment in their respective fields.
(Read more here.)

Trout Springs Winery makes the News Again ... and Again ... and Again
* WFRV-TV Local 5 in Green Bay featured us in their weekly Road Trip segment on June 30. (Watch it here.) 
* On June 21, the Appleton Post-Crescent newspaper included us in their story "Wisconsin wineries to check out this summer." (Read it here.)
​* And The USA Today Network -Wisconsin recently listed us as one of "eight romantic Wisconsin date ideas." (Read it here.) 

Trout Springs Winery Sustainability Efforts Lead to Green Certification
For doing our part to keep our winery, vineyard, and trout hatchery as environmentally friendly a as possible, we were granted Green Masters Program Certification from the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council (read more about our sustainability practices here).
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