About Urban Forage Winery & Cider House
Urban Forage Winery and Cider House takes a radically different approach to winemaking. Located on East Lake Street in Minneapolis, it is the most urban winery in the state, and its sourcing model is unlike anything else in Minnesota. Each summer and fall, Urban Forage picks apples, pears, plums, and cherries from city residents' fruit trees and local small orchards with the landowners' permission. They also harvest rhubarb, dandelions, hops, and other flowers in season. All products are made in small batches with minimal processing in stainless steel casks and oak barrels, resulting in wines, ciders, and meads that taste genuinely of the city they come from. The taproom is a neighborhood gathering place on the Longfellow-Seward border, and the atmosphere is casual and community-driven.
Urban Forage represents something genuinely new in Minnesota wine: a producer that turns the city itself into the vineyard, making products that could not exist anywhere else.