A Visitor's Guide to Cedar Creek Winery, Cedarburg
Published July 7, 2026
Cedar Creek Winery makes its wine in a restored 1860s woolen mill in downtown Cedarburg. Tastings, tours, the wines to try, and how to build a day around a visit.
Cedar Creek Winery makes its wine inside a restored 1860s woolen mill in the heart of Cedarburg, aging some of it in the building's original limestone cellars. It's a working winery you can tour and taste at seven days a week, and it anchors the Cedar Creek Settlement — the cluster of shops and cafes in the same stone complex. This guide walks through the tastings and tours, the history that makes the building worth a look on its own, the wines people come back for, and how to fold a visit into a day in Cedarburg. For live hours and booking, the winery listing has the current details.
The story: from woolen mill to award-winning winery
The building came first. Constructed in 1864, the stone complex on Bridge Road ran as a woolen mill until 1969, when synthetic fabrics put it out of business. It sat empty until 1972, when a local home winemaker named Jim Pape bought it and turned it into a winery — first the Newberry, then the Stone Mill Winery, known in the '70s for cherry wines sold in distinctive clay bottles.
In 1990 the Wollersheim family — the winemakers behind Wollersheim Winery in Prairie du Sac — bought the operation and renamed it Cedar Creek Winery. They shifted the focus toward traditional grape wines and put the mill's cool limestone cellars back to work aging wine in oak. Today the winery shares a winemaker with its sister operation: Philippe Coquard, a 13th-generation winemaker. That lineage is part of why a small-town Wisconsin winery keeps turning up in national and international competitions.
Tastings, flights, and tours
You've got three ways to taste, and none of them require much planning for a casual visit:
Wine flight. A flight runs $10, is available daily, and needs no reservation. This is the walk-in option — the easiest way to sample the range if you're already downtown.
Reservable tasting. A seated, guided tasting runs $25 and is offered on Saturdays by reservation. Worth booking if you want the more structured experience or you're bringing a group.
Guided tour. The $18 guided tour runs on select days and takes you into the limestone cellars where the barrel-aging happens. It lasts roughly 45 minutes; reserve ahead, since day-of spots depend on availability.
Hours and booking shift with the season, so check the winery listing for current times and to reserve a tour or tasting before you go.
The wines to know
Cedar Creek pours a full range of dry-to-sweet reds, whites, and blush wines, but the ones people search out are the seasonal bottles. Strawberry Blush is the summer favorite and ties neatly to Cedarburg's Strawberry Festival; Cedarburg Spice and Christmas Blush carry the cooler months; and there's usually a current seasonal feature on the shelf. If you're visiting during a festival, these are the bottles worth taking home — and the winery runs festival wine pickup, so you can order ahead.
Visiting: what to expect
The winery sits at N70 W6340 Bridge Road, inside the Settlement complex. Tastings happen on the main floor alongside the shop; the cellars come into play on the tour. It's an easy, low-key visit — free to walk in and browse, with the paid flights and tours if you want to taste. Curbside pickup is available if you're just grabbing bottles. Groups are welcome, though larger parties should call ahead for the reservable tasting.
Cedar Creek Settlement and beyond
The winery is one tenant in the larger Cedar Creek Settlement, so you're steps from a cluster of shops and places to eat when you're done tasting. It's the natural way to extend a visit into a full afternoon.
For food right there in the mill, Cream & Crepe Cafe is the easy answer — sweet and savory crepes a short walk from the tasting room.
Other Cedarburg wineries, breweries, and distilleries
If tasting is the point of your trip, Cedar Creek isn't the only stop. Chiselled Grape Winery gives you a second winery within the same walkable downtown.
For a broader crawl, The Fermentorium and Rebellion Brewing cover the beer side, and Handen Distillery rounds it out with spirits. Our where to eat and drink in Cedarburg guide maps the full scene, and if you're timing a visit around the Wine & Harvest Festival, the winery is central to it.