Discovering new terroir
Estonian Wine Trail
Discover new terroir on Estonian wine trail
Estonia lies on the Northern edge of the wine industry world. Long and cold winters combined with summers with moderate heat and long white nights create unique conditions for growing fruit and berries. This brand new terroir is currently being explored by local wine producers as well as tourists. During the last decade, wine producers have found their roots in old traditions, and developed them further with the help of new technology.
On the wine trail, you can get to know the winemaking secrets, meet the makers and, of course, taste local wine together with matching food, unique atmosphere and stories.
The producers of Estonian Wine Trail share the ideas and principles of winemaking and quality, but are still all different. Manors, country houses and farms; wine dinners, theatre pieces and concerts; wine spa and glamping – everyone will find something interesting.
23 wine producers make their wine from apple to grapes and exotic berries like honeysuckle. In 2021, the overall production of Estonian Wine Trail producers was 95 000 l. The wine was produced mainly from apple and rhubarb, but a decent 3500 l of wine was produced from grape.
To plan your Estonian Wine Trail trip get in touch with the wineries directly! Although the visit should be agreed with every producer separately, all wine producers are willing to share information and ideas of the best routes and activities.
Valgejõe Veinivilla – northernmost winery of Estonia, located in Lahemaa National Park. Our winemaking tandem consists of sommeliers mother Tiina and her son Gregor. Our wines are offered in the best restaurants in Tallinn and Michelin-starred restaurants in Germany.
We offer group tastings of local fruit and berry wines, dinners and lunches, seminars, team building games (wine-orienteering), private wellness experience Winebath with sauna and virtual tastings. Max 50 people, booking needed.
Valgeranna Veinitall is an urban winehouse in Pärnu, the summer capital of Estonia since 2015. We serve the ideology of “tail to nose”: everything that doesn’t end up in a wine bottle, finds itself in vinegar kitchen or in distillation process.
Come visit our event center – an old horse stable with plenty of room for wine tastings, concerts and parties.
We’re located next to an old mansion park, 2 km from beach and 10 km from Pärnu bus station. Take a car, taxi or even local city bus, no need for further planning of transportation. A real winery experience spontaneously and quickly.
Allikukivi winery – We have undertaken an experiment to see if a modern manor can be managed on the same principles as a historic one, which was typically engaged in agricultural production.
Our wines are made on-site in the manor’s wine cellar from fresh fruit and berries sourced from our orchards, local forests, and producers. We’re a family business that puts great importance on sustainable management and a lifestyle close to nature.
We are always ready to greet new and old wine lovers alike, share our knowledge and, most importantly, hear the impressions our wine gives you.
Veinimäe farm produces organic grapes, and high-quality craft wines and ciders. Our company was founded in 2014 by a reputable South-Estonian agronomist with a degree in the production and marketing of agricultural products from the Estonian University of Life Sciences. These invaluable core competencies allowed us to grow into the largest greenhouse vineyard in Estonia, and we aspire to become the biggest producer of grape wines in the Baltic states. We grow over 75 varieties of northern grapes in 2500m2 greenhouses and in a 0.5ha open field. In addition to growing our own raw material so we can produce wines and juices in our winery, we also make excellent propagating material and grow grapes that can be shown to tourists or eaten as snacks.
Our craft cider, which is made from locally sourced apples, won the bronze medal at the Baltic Cider Competition, and was already being sold in major retail outlets within its first year of production. Our dark grape wine Sulbi Punane – a tribute to the small place in the countryside from which we started our journey – is also the first retail wine in Estonia to be aged in French oak barrels before bottling. Our pop-up bar has allowed us to partner with several large Estonian festivals, and our clients include prominent restaurants in the capital as well as small bars and shops that sell craft beers and ciders.
Uue-Saaluse winery is a family-owned business established in 2016, located 5 kilometers from Haanja (Rõuge municipality, Võru county) by the beautiful Lake Alajärv. It is the southernmost and highest vineyard on Estonian Winetrail, where guests can stroll through the vineyards, explore the intriguing underground wine cellar, discover the secrets of winemaking, and enjoy the local beverages. Their selection includes wines made from grapes, rhubarb, white currants, chokeberries, and other berries and fruits. Their most popular products are award-winning vermouth and quince sparkling wine. The sommelier hostess conducts tastings, offering tips on wine serving and pairing with food. Visitors are welcomed year-round, with seven different visit packages available. The winery also offers facilities for seminars, catering by reservation, and nature excursions.
Saaremaa I winefactory – We are the first winery in Saaremaa that makes wine from almost everything. The selection includes nettle, tomato and oak leaf wines, as well as many other exciting berry and fruit wines and flavors offered by Estonian raw materials.
To make the best drink, we proudly use our skills and experience of twenty years of craft food, syrups, juices and herbal mixtures. In the classroom, we taste alternative and rustic wines, talk about wine in folklore and medicine and its use in food. Winery workshops are held with advance registration.
Habaja Viinavabriku – the small wine factory in the historical distillery building produces berry and fruit wines, as well as sparkling wines, from domestic raw ingredients. Their most popular product is bottle fermented sparkling rhubarb wine. They also make wines from unusual ingredients like stinging nettle.
They also offer snacks that go perfectly with the wines. You can also admire photos taken by the hostess. On weekends, in fine weather, we offer pizzas made in a stone oven and there is also a courtyard café. In winter, you can also visit a skating café.
By agreement, it is also possible to order finer festive meals!
Open all year round (advance bookings only)
Hindreku farm is a romantic farmhouse in genuine Estonian village milieu. We have the Estonian
wine chamber which is a cosy vinotheque that represents all the Estonian craft wine makers and their products. Estonian wine production has lengthy history as every household used to have some berry or apple wine fermenting at home. Nowadays home producers have become manufacturers of high quality berry, fruit or vegetable wine. Warming climate has also encouraged viticulture that is fostering more and more.
Our chamber offers snappy rhubarb wine, white wine made of apples or seabuckthorn, red wine made of berries and sweet dessert wine. Something for every taste!
Estonian wine chamber hosts degustation and schooling at the guidance of Tuuli Klementa – sommelier and hostess of Hindreku farmhouse. Estonian wine chamber – all Estonian wines together!
Hirveaia veinikelder – an old ice cellar has been given a new life behind the stone garden surrounding the Alatskivi castle. In this historical building you can learn about the eastern-Estonian culture and try craft wines made from local fruits and berries. During the tasting workshop you can try five different wines and play a guessing game about the ingredients. Our winemaker will introduce you to the winemaking process and tell stories of beautiful Alatskivi Castle and local flavours.
In 2020 we are open from June to August, on every Friday and Saturday between 12-19. If you want to visit us at some other time, please call in advance:
Murimäe Veinikelder – an enchanting vineyard located between the hills of Otepää.
You can visit the vineyard and the wine cellar, where we will give an overview of the activities of the Murimäe Wine Cellar and Nordic viticulture and winemaking. We offer catering and organize trainings and wine tastings, where artisanal wines made from Estonian grown grapes and other Estonian raw materials can be tasted.
We offer our guests cozy and exclusive accommodation in a guest apartment with all amenities and a sauna, where you can wake up and enjoy a beautiful view of the domed landscape of Southern Estonia!
Luscher & Matiesen Muhu Veinitalu carries on the more than 100-year-old legacy of
Luscher & Matiesen, the biggest wine factory of Estonia’s first independence.
Luscher & Matiesen Muhu Veinitalu is one of the first and biggest wine growers and wine tourism companies in Estonia. Our vineyards consist of more than 2000 Rondo, Solaris and Pinot Noir vines. Our first wine was made from 2016 harvest. Muhu Veinitalu produces also fruit and berry wines and cider.
During summer we offer boutique accommodation and seasonal delicacies of our restaurant.
Muhu Veinitalu is located near the sea in Vahtraste village on Muhu island. Welcome!
Ulge talu – on the edge of Vooremaa, close to lake Peipsi, is located Ulge farm, where the members of the family have grown various types of berries already for decades. Here you may find answers to your questions like: how to successfully grow strawberries, what does pumpkin love, why to grow chokeberry or … why make wine out of local products?
The love of the folks of Ulge farm towards horticultural crops (and, let’s be honest, towards a good time spent together) has grown so big, that we have decided to try fermentation of the crops of our fields.
Every member of the Ulge family enjoys the experience from fine taste and we wish to share the experience with other revellers. We have stored up some of the finest tastes in the bottle and our door is open to everyone, who would like to join us on the journey of local taste.
Come and visit us – let’s take a stroll around the farm, let’s take a look, what is growing on the fields, what kind of gadgets belong to our machinery and we will definitely taste the divine local wine!
Pindi Wine Farm is a small winery in Võru county that has blossomed from a mother-daughter passion for creating wines. These unconventional fruit and berry wines are crafted from products of South- Estonian forests and from local growers. Every taste preference is provided for. We offer dry, semi-sweet and dessert wines. We organise wine tastings in combination with Andri-Peedo goat farm where goat cheese and other goat milk products are developed specially to complement our wines. Also – all these delicious goat cheeses are created by one of our wine maker.
Aru mõis – open by appointment during warm season from mid-May to the end of October.
Wine tasting, guided tours for groups up to 25 persons.
Järiste Veinitalu – we grow grapes, apples and blackcurrants. We popularize both Estonian viticulture and wine culture. We offer berry wine and cider made from local ingredients. Moreover, we are one of the few in Estonia that produces Estonian wine from grapes grown in our vineyard.
As to our wines, each vintage is unique but at the same time personal. Created to take a break, enjoy and think – calmly. Our wine is made just for you – a conscious and demanding consumer. It is an art and a smart drinking culture together.
We operate in the historic Luke Manor Tavern and during the tour we introduce you to the exciting wine and cider making process and offer a tasting of our products along with snacks from local businesses.
Kanarbiku veinitalu – teetotal winemaker Meelis started winemaking in 2009. Two years later being awarded 3rd place in the Maaleht and Veinivilla home wine competition, giving Meelis the confidence and courage to keep pursuing his dream. Continued success in the same competition in 2012 further confirmed his endeavour. After several more winnings and ultimately receiving a 2nd place finish in 2018, resulted in the establishment of Kanarbiku Veinitalu OÜ on 08.08.2018. It is a small family owned business located in Tartu County, Elva Parish, Vallapalu Village.
The main activity is the production of berry and fruit wine and juice. All the products are produced only from locally grown berries and fruits. The winery has its own black currant, chokeberry and rhubarb plots. Kanarbiku Veinitalu offers artisan wine tasting, introduces its production and welcomes its guests to walk around its gardens.
The production of Rüüp wines is located in the village of Ihamaru, Põlva County, at Ala Juusa farmstead, next to the beautiful Postroad. We make handmade wines mainly from our self-grown berries and apples. In 2022, a vineyard was established, where vines are grown both in the open field and in a 400 m2 tunnel greenhouse. We kindly show our activities to visitors: we explain how vines are grown in Estonia and how grapes become wine, taste different drinks, introduce the production space, which we affectionately call the Rüüp (Sip) kitchen. We also offer accommodation in a holiday home with a sauna and a hot tub.
In Tihemetsa, Pärnumaa Langemaa began with apple trees and berry bushes planted in the home garden by parents. Juices made from the harvest made us wonder how to achieve the cleanest and most natural vitamin-rich end result possible.
For today we have planted thousands of blackcurrant bushes, black chokeberry and Japanese quince shrubs; established a modern garden of apple trees. Acquired modern juice making technology and wine cellar.
The hobby has grown into the production of natural juices and wines.
We make wines with long aging, incl. special orders.
Langemaa has a visitor center with bed & breakfast and sauna complex. We are open for individual visitors and groups (need to book in advance) who are interested in:
– walking in the ochard (truly tranquil experience on the flowering period),
– tastings of products in the wine cellar,
– tour of the small-scale production,
– a pre-ordered wine cafe (snacks and drinks outdoors)
Come and step out of the everyday routine in beautiful Tihemetsa, the southern state of Estonia!
The production of RaJuVe handcraft wines takes place in Kõrtsi farm located in a small village called Sälliku in Alutaguse municipal East Estonia. Names of the wines mostly contain the farm name “Kõrtsi”, what translated into English means “a pub” or “a tavern”. The name obviously has a hint to the history – there was a real working tavern at the farms location. Unfortunately there is no historical pictures of the tavern building itself.
The production started in the summer of 2023. We produce our wines in a special brand new facility. We buy raw materials for our wine production from nearby berry farms. It is very important that the products we sell are made from Estonian produce. Often we enrich our wines with the berries from our local forests.
In the near future we will add degustations, introduction to wine producing and other thematic events to our scope. We are very passionate about introducing fuit wines as a part of good cuisine. As of May 2024 we welcome everyone to visit us! Info and booking at www.rajuve.ee.
Nöösker is a meadery located in the centre of Estonia, in Roosna-Alliku, that breaks traditions by combining the wisdom of beer and wine makers in a new way. At the heart of our meads is the Estonian honey with local berries and fruits, along with the occasional exotic spices. We are a meadery where each drink tells its unique story of curiosity and creativity, and every sip is a tribute to our country’s nature and its rich flavours. And, of course, to the invaluable contribution of bees, because without them, there would be no mead. Join us on a mead journey and discover this restless animal – Nöösker.