![]() A tasting flight here costs $10, and you can also order gourmet charcuterie and cheese boards to accompany your wine. At the moment they have one white wine, a Riesling. The winery focuses mostly on red wines including Cabernet, Merlot, Malbec, and Sangiovese. These beautiful barrels no doubt contribute to some of the depth of flavor that Enginehouse 25 wines exhibit. Their oak barrels are made from Pennsylvania oak that is actually shipped to Australia, turned into barrels by a famous cooper there, and shipped back. Similar to Pittsburgh Winery, all the grapes used for making wine at Enginehouse 25 are shipped in from grape-growing regions around the world including South America and California. You can take a tour of the cellar as part of a tour to the museum, and you can also taste and buy the wines at the adjacent wine bar, Arriba. In fact, the owner of the museum also owns the winery. Odd, but quite good.Īpis Mead & Winery is located at 206 Mary Street in Carnegie.Įnginehouse 25 is a unique winery in Lawrenceville located in the basement of the Roberto Clemente Museum. If they have it, be sure to try “Honey Moon,” a mead that contains similar yeasts and flavors to a Saison beer. The ones here taste more like flavored wine than the mead you'd expect, but we're more than okay with that. There are the traditional meads, aged meads, and spiced meads as well as an array of flavored meads that push the boundaries of what you'd expect the drink to be.Īlthough I would've preferred to have a powerfully sweet mead like the kind you can find at the local Renaissance Festival, I am also not one to go against trying something new- especially when honey wine is concerned. The spectrum of meads at Apis takes on similar format to that of Arsenal Cider House (above). This sweet alcohol made from fermented honey is one you don't hear of too often, but at Apis Mead & Winery in Carnegie this is precisely what you're going to get. ![]() I am a sucker for a large chalice of mead. With roughly ten flavors to choose from (and a killer wine sorbet), odds are good that Arsenal Cider House will have a flavor that you'll enjoy.Īrsenal Cider House is located at 300 39th Street in Lawrenceville. Arsenal Cider House has additional taprooms at Soergel's Orchard in Wexford and Trax Farms in Finleyville as well as a taproom in Dormont at 2905 W Liberty Ave. It may sound a bit gimmicky to order a flavored cider (those into the wine scene know how much regional breweries love to turn every fruit under the sun into a wine), but give the ones at Arsenal Cider House a chance as we have come to enjoy the flavored varieties far more than their standard offering. Since being founded just a few years ago, Arsenal Cider House has grown from a collection of just a few ciders and honey mead to an impressive array of flavored ciders and wines with sour cherry and blueberry being some of our favorites. Pittsburgh Winery is located at 2815 Penn Avenue in the Strip District.Īrsenal Cider House in Multiple LocationsĪs their name suggests, Arsenal Cider House in Lawrenceville is all about cider- the delicious beverage that comes as the result of fermenting apples. Naturally, we're planning on leaving with a bottle after every visit. ![]() Tasting trays at Pittsburgh Winery are roughly $10 however, there is no fee if you purchase a bottle (~$18 on up). In fact, the wine is so good that they would hold up to competitors who produce wine in the grape's point of origin- a feat that is hard enough for any winemaker, let alone one thousands of miles from where the grape was grown. ![]() Luckily all doubts were removed the second we tried a sampler of the wines that were currently available- they all were delicious. Something about this concept didn't sit well with us as we never had good experiences at wineries that don't grow their own grapes. Our first thought of Pittsburgh Winery was that they were going to be much like this however, our thoughts soon changed (for the worse) when we found out they import their grapes from the major wine regions from around the world. While delicious in their own right, these grapes are not going to be put Pennsylvania winemakers on the map any time soon. Often, the best wines to come out of this region are sweet wines made from sugar-rich grapes like Concord or Niagara. Wine in the region is interesting as the weather patterns and soil quality allows for only select grapes to grow.
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