Naked Winery has two tasting rooms in the Black Hills – the Hill City facility and another in downtown Custer. BLACK HILLS & BADLANDS REGION The grapes are from Oregon and Washington, but the light-hearted atmosphere is homegrown. Belle Joli’ Winery is owned and operated by Jackson Winery and Vineyards, established in 2000 near Belle Fourche. The winery’s presence now stretches across the northern Black Hills. Their “Sparkling House” (a state-of-the-art facility producing sparkling wine by traditional champagne methods) is at the entrance to Vanocker Canyon near Sturgis. Whether you choose to take a Black Hills wine tour or stop on your own while driving through the splendid Black Hills landscapes, area wineries are a wonderful way to enhance your vacation. Local tour operators special-izing in wine tours include Black Hills Adventure Tours and Black Hills Open-Top Tours . Learn more about their offerings in the Transportation & Tours Directory found on pages 126 & 127 of this guide. All the wineries ship to most of the United States, and many local restaurants, bistros, and retail liquor stores stock their products for purchase. • HILL CITY • CUSTER • KEYSTONE Black Hills wine IT’S THE RIGHT TIME FOR WINE TIME It may surprise visitors, but South Dakota has a long history of wine making —derived from regional berries and fruits like rhubarb, crab apples, chokecherries, buffalo berries and plums. Native fruits, along with recently developed grape vari-eties that thrive in our Northern Plains climate, make for some delectable fine wines produced by local master vintners. The local wine culture continues to gain pop-ularity, with area residents and vacationers alike ever more impressed with the award-winning wines now lo-cally available. The area’s original winery, Hill City’s Prairie Berry Winery , has been making South Dakota wines for five generations and offers more than 15 grape, fruit and honey wines to taste and purchase. The family original-ly pioneered near Mound City, where the area’s “prairie berries” were turned into fruit wines using “old country” techniques. Prairie Berry’s Kitchen offers artisan plates 54 beer wine tastings daily ICE CREAM TASTINGS FOR KIDS! KITCHEN OPEN DAILY 866.355.7889 SicknTwistedBrewery.com NakedWinerySD.com & and flat-grill sandwiches.
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