Frequently asked questions

Yes! We allow well-behaved dogs on our patio. Only service animals are allowed inside the tasting room.

We offer a few small plates and snacks in our tasting room, such as cheese and charcuterie plates that feed 1-2 people each. We also host food trucks on Friday nights during the warmer months (~April through October).

Occasionally we host special events with a larger menu - keep an eye out on our Events page and Facebook/Instagram for announcements about these specials. You're always welcome to bring in outside food if you'd like.

We sell all of our wine by the glass, flight, and bottle in our tasting room in Jordan, Minnesota.

A few select wines are available through local wine shops and restaurants in Minnesota. Please visit our Where to Buy page for details.

We specialize in making sparkling wines - carbonated, Champagne-style, and Prosecco-style - made from locally-grown grapes. We offer a variety of styles of wine, ranging from very dry (no sugar) to semi-sweet. Most of our wines are dry, but we do offer a few selections of semi-sweet wines for visitors who like sweeter wines.

We also offer hard cider and still wine (wines without bubbles) on our menu.

We are currently working with a distributor to sell a selection of our best-selling wines in retail and restaurants.

For more information on how to carry our wines in your wine shop or restaurant, please email wholesale@moussewinery.com.

Mousse [pronounced moos] is the French word for the bubbles that rise to the surface of a glass of Champagne. Just like the "head" on a glass of beer, the "mousse" is the foam that's created by the carbonation in the wine. We want to emphasize the fact that we specialize in all things bubbly, and at the same time tipping our hat to our location in the North, home of "moose" the animal.

While we will be using the same techniques for making many of our sparkling wines as they do in France, we can't call our wines Champagne because that name is reserved only for wines that come from the Champagne region in France. We refer to our wines as sparkling wines or bubbly.

Note: We do sometimes refer to our winery as a "Champagnery". We realize that we don't actually make true "Champagne" for the reasons stated above, but as a winery that specializes in sparkling wines made in the champagne method, champagnery just has such a clear meaning and a nice ring to it that we can't help but use it to describe what we do.

Each of these styles of wine contain carbon dioxide which create the bubbles, but each is made using differing techniques, and therefore taste different. Any of these styles of wine can be dry, off-dry, or sweet, depending on the winemaker's preference.

Champagnes tend to be richer and more full-bodied due to the longer ageing time in the bottle that they undergo. You might also see wines that say "Fermented in this Bottle", méthode champenoise, or traditional method on the label -- all of these wines have been made using the same techniques as they do in Champagne, France. These wines tend to be more expensive due to the long ageing and more laborious process of making them.

Prosecco is usually made by letting the wine undergo a natural yeast fermentation in pressurized tanks, which creates and holds the carbonation in the wine. This is also called the Charmat or cuve close method. These wines don't spend as long ageing in the winery as Champagnes, so they tend to be a bit fruitier, crisper, and lighter-bodied. They also tend to be in the middle price range, because they're faster to make than méthode champenoise wines, and don't require as much hands-on labor.

Carbonated wines are made by injecting carbon dioxide into the wine in a pressurized tank. This is an "artificial" way to create bubbles in a wine, as opposed to using yeast to create the bubbles. Many bubbly fruit wines (made from fruit other than grapes), as well as most hard apple ciders, are made in this way. These wines tend to be the least expensive of all the bubblies, and are fruity, crisp, and light-bodied.