Premier Regions
Alaska's most celebrated wine regions — the essential destinations for any wine country visit.
About Alaska Wine Country
Alaska wine country bears no resemblance to Napa. There are no grape vines — the climate won't allow them — but what Alaska has instead is extraordinary: millions of acres of wild berry-producing tundra, boreal forest, and coastal rain forest, yielding salmonberries, wild blueberries, cloudberries, crowberries, and bog cranberries that make fruit wines of genuine wild character.
Bear Creek Winery & Lodging in Homer has been the spiritual home of Alaska wine since it opened on the Kenai Peninsula. The tasting room overlooks Kachemak Bay, and the wines — made from local berries, rose hips, and rhubarb — taste like Alaska's wilderness in a glass. This is not an apology for the terroir; it is the terroir.
Mead has emerged as Alaska's most distinctive craft category. The state's fireweed, wildflower, and spruce-tip honeys are exceptional raw materials, and meaderies in Southeast Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula are producing sparkling, sweet, and dry meads that would surprise and delight any honey wine enthusiast. For visitors, Alaska's craft beverage scene is an authentic, uncommercialized experience unlike anything in the Lower 48.
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Every corner of Alaska wine country — from the most visited to the hidden gems.
