Rhode Island Wine Country

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Newport Vineyards in Middletown is the largest winery in New England by production, making estate Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, and sparkling wines from 60 acres of south-facing vineyards just minutes from Newport's famous mansions and Cliff Walk.

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About Rhode Island Wine Country

Rhode Island wine country is New England's most polished and most surprising. Sixteen estate wineries in the nation's smallest state pack into a geography that ranges from Newport's gilded-age grandeur to South County's stone wall farm country — and the maritime climate provided by Narragansett Bay creates growing conditions surprisingly well-suited to vinifera grapes.

Newport Vineyards in Middletown is the jewel of the Rhode Island wine scene: 60 acres of south-facing estate vineyards just minutes from the Newport Mansions, producing Chardonnay and Cabernet Franc that hold their own against the Hamptons' best. The tasting room is packed in summer with visitors who arrive for Cliff Walk and leave having discovered something unexpected.

Sakonnet Vineyard in Little Compton holds a unique place in American wine history as the first modern winery in New England (established 1975). The wines here have a forty-plus-year track record, and the setting — stone walls, farmland, the Sakonnet River — is quintessential coastal New England. Rhode Island's wine trail is compact enough to do in a day and varied enough to be genuinely memorable.