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Another Round
By Terri Gordon - The Other Side of the Lake | October 2005
Grand Opening: Heart of the Vineyard's Round Barn Winery and Distillery Opens a New Tasting Room and Cider Mill in Union Pier.
A while ago, and not so far away, the Moersch family began growing grapes and making wine amid Baroda's rolling hills, on a 30-acre farm they called Heart of the Vineyard. It was August of 1992.
As they created more and more wine varieties, they needed more and more space. The Round Barn Winery & Distillery was added. They expanded their repertoire, too. They began to make brandies and cognacs and beers.
Well, the Moersches are expanding again.
The family decided to open a tasting room. The Union Pier location they chose had land to build on, and at the edge of the property was a smaller outbuilding.
Too small for a tasting room, too nice to tear down, Round Barn Winery teamed up with Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm, in Eau Claire, to turn the building into a cider mill.
At the Fruit House, a window lets visitors watch as apples are pressed into cider.
The facility will sell fresh cider, but will also ship some of their pressings back to the winery to be fermented into wine.
"We've been working with Tree-Mendus Fruit Farms on an apple wine for a couple of years," says Chris Moersch, Round Barn's general manager. "It's very similar to an apple cider-a fermented cider. We just figured we'd take it a step further."
With cider mills becoming less common, and their need for pressed apples rising, "It just made sense," says Moersch, to add the cider mill. "It's been kind of like everything else we've done at the Round Barn and our business in general, we've added things kind of as we go."
They put in the observation window so people could see and understand the process. Even while not up and running yet, it draws a
lot of interest.
"I think a lot of people grew up with cider mills around and people are trying to go back to their childhood a little bit and experience the same thing with their children."
To celebrate the opening of the Union Pier Round Barn Winery & Distillery Tasting Room and Fruit House, the Moersch family is inviting everybody out to their new tasting room for a long weekend of wine and appetizers-and of course, apple cider!
The Grand Opening celebration takes place starting October 13 and going through the 16th.
The Round Barn's entire gamut of European-style grape wines, local fruit wines, cordials and brandies and their freshly pressed apple cider can all be tasted and purchased at the Tasting Room Union Pier-with grand Grand Opening discounts!
Round Barn is also proud to offer a new line of chocolate truffles made with their "pi" series of cordials.
The fruit "pi" series, as it is labeled, offers a unique fruit flavor that the Moersches liken to "a port." Fruit is fermented and made into wine. A portion of it, then, is distilled into brandy and added back to the wine. The end result is a thick, potent cordial that tastes like the apples, blueberries, peaches or cherries used in their making. Now, Rachel's, of South Haven, has added these fruit essences to handmade chocolate truffles.
Heart of the Vineyard's New Union Pier Tasting Room is located off Exit 6 on I-94.
The store will be open seven days a week just like the "home" location-everyday except Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's and Easter.
At the home location, folks are invited to join the Moersch family for a special Halloween celebration.
The second annual Halloween Murder Mystery Dinner & Dancing takes place Saturday, October 29, at Heart of the Vineyard, in Baroda.
Called The Vampire Among Us, the evening includes appetizers, dinner, dessert and dancing. The cost is $65 per person, and the complete menu is available at www.roundbarnwinery.com.
For reservations, or further information, call 800-716-WINE. Costumes are recommended, but not required. The Boulevard Hotel in St. Joseph is offering a special Round Barn Winery Mystery Dinner rate. Their phone number is 269-983-6600.
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HOW 'BOUT THEM APPLES
Chris Moersch stands in the Round Barn Winery and Distillery's new Union Pier Tasting Room where visitors can taste wines and watch the making of fresh apple cider in the Fruit House next door.
Chris Moersch stands in the Round Barn Winery and Distillery's new Union Pier Tasting Room where visitors can taste wines and watch the making of fresh apple cider in the Fruit House next door.
A while ago, and not so far away, the Moersch family began growing grapes and making wine amid Baroda's rolling hills, on a 30-acre farm they called Heart of the Vineyard. It was August of 1992.
As they created more and more wine varieties, they needed more and more space. The Round Barn Winery & Distillery was added. They expanded their repertoire, too. They began to make brandies and cognacs and beers.
Well, the Moersches are expanding again.
The family decided to open a tasting room. The Union Pier location they chose had land to build on, and at the edge of the property was a smaller outbuilding.
Too small for a tasting room, too nice to tear down, Round Barn Winery teamed up with Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm, in Eau Claire, to turn the building into a cider mill.
At the Fruit House, a window lets visitors watch as apples are pressed into cider.
The facility will sell fresh cider, but will also ship some of their pressings back to the winery to be fermented into wine.
"We've been working with Tree-Mendus Fruit Farms on an apple wine for a couple of years," says Chris Moersch, Round Barn's general manager. "It's very similar to an apple cider-a fermented cider. We just figured we'd take it a step further."
With cider mills becoming less common, and their need for pressed apples rising, "It just made sense," says Moersch, to add the cider mill. "It's been kind of like everything else we've done at the Round Barn and our business in general, we've added things kind of as we go."
Round Barn Winery and Distillery's new
Union Pier Tasting Room and Cider Mill will feature the winery's complete line of wines and Rachel's chocolate truffles,
made with their Pi wines.
"I think a lot of people grew up with cider mills around and people are trying to go back to their childhood a little bit and experience the same thing with their children."
To celebrate the opening of the Union Pier Round Barn Winery & Distillery Tasting Room and Fruit House, the Moersch family is inviting everybody out to their new tasting room for a long weekend of wine and appetizers-and of course, apple cider!
The Grand Opening celebration takes place starting October 13 and going through the 16th.
The Round Barn's entire gamut of European-style grape wines, local fruit wines, cordials and brandies and their freshly pressed apple cider can all be tasted and purchased at the Tasting Room Union Pier-with grand Grand Opening discounts!
Round Barn is also proud to offer a new line of chocolate truffles made with their "pi" series of cordials.
The fruit "pi" series, as it is labeled, offers a unique fruit flavor that the Moersches liken to "a port." Fruit is fermented and made into wine. A portion of it, then, is distilled into brandy and added back to the wine. The end result is a thick, potent cordial that tastes like the apples, blueberries, peaches or cherries used in their making. Now, Rachel's, of South Haven, has added these fruit essences to handmade chocolate truffles.
Heart of the Vineyard's New Union Pier Tasting Room is located off Exit 6 on I-94.
The store will be open seven days a week just like the "home" location-everyday except Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's and Easter.
At the home location, folks are invited to join the Moersch family for a special Halloween celebration.
The second annual Halloween Murder Mystery Dinner & Dancing takes place Saturday, October 29, at Heart of the Vineyard, in Baroda.
Called The Vampire Among Us, the evening includes appetizers, dinner, dessert and dancing. The cost is $65 per person, and the complete menu is available at www.roundbarnwinery.com.
For reservations, or further information, call 800-716-WINE. Costumes are recommended, but not required. The Boulevard Hotel in St. Joseph is offering a special Round Barn Winery Mystery Dinner rate. Their phone number is 269-983-6600.
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