Baldwin Vineyards

This was our second winery on day two of experiencing the Hudson Valley wine trail. We were enticed by the good value of twelve wines for twelve dollars that included dessert. The wines and the desserts were tasty although we did not fund any of the wines distinct enough to warrant a purchase. The kid who was giving us our tasting was just going through the motions and really didn’t seem to know much about the wine. The tasting room was in a basement and smelled a little musty.

This is one of my favorite wineries for sweet wines that are made from the actual fruit itself and not just grapes. They offer a variety of different wines from semi-​sweet to syrupy sweet. Every fall, they have a Strawberry Festival, where they offer the tastings of 10 wines accompanied by a plate of dessert. If you are looking for a sugar rush, then this is the ultimate event, taking bites of sugary delights and washing it down with some sweet wine.

So I was kind of thrown off by the name being called Baldwin Vineyards because I was expecting a vineyard but they actually are a distillery now and they have their wines imported for the vineyards of finger lakes (what the guy said). I came here for a strawberry and chocolate tasting festivity and my husband and I had a good time. We tasted about 15 wines from white to red along with their desserts. For the most part I liked most of their wines except for the dry ones and the Merlots. They have sweeter wines which came to par with my preference. The apple and strawberry wine was great, we bought a bottle of this and they also have wine margarita. A wine margarita is basically a wine mixed with margarita mix and ice (any of their wine selection works). Today they sampled the apple one and it was a best seller. The place got crowded fast and the staff was just accommodating and great to work with. I wish I bought more bottles.

Thank you so much for a lovely Saturday afternoon! We arrived a little after 10am and there was plenty of space at the bar, it started to fill up closer to 1:30. The people are super nice, the music was jazzy, and the whole atmosphere was great. Definitely recommend it!

Eh — it’s okay. I’ve been here a few times. Every time I come, mistakenly thinking that I like this winery. But when I arrive, I realize that I mistakenly was recalling a different winery.
The wine is just okay. Lots of sweet wines. So, they don’t have much range outside of their sweet wines
Went to a few wineries this weekend, stopped in here, and regretted it initially because of the crazy crowd. This was not a relaxing stop on our wine trail. They were having a strawberry/​chocolate desserts festival, along with a groupon (which was a great deal), but — in the end– I would probably have been happier if I went somewhere else.
Feel free to skip the fluff of this winery.

I got there early, a little after they opened and I’m glad i did! by the time we were finished there was a line out the door and it was a bit crowded. we did our wine tasting in the back room where they had tables and a young man pouring/​describing our wines he was super nice and gave great recommendations ! i went on a weekend where they had a strawberry, chocolate, and wine festival, everything was so delicious! and it was rather cheap for the whole experience– ill definitely go again soon! we got a glass to take home and i bought a few bottles of wine to take home.
everyone was really nice and took their time with everyone, had a great experience and i definitely recommend this vineyard!

The desert wines are fantastic!!! We drove all the way from CT. Highly recommended for a fun afternoon with tasty treats.

All the wines are great! They have a ton of sweet wines for those with a sweeter tooth, but their Embers (a semi-​sweet) was my favorite there. Go for a tasting, you won’t be disappointed.

Delicious dessert sampling with wine for their strawberry wine tasting festival. A little busy when we arrived and were sold out of raspberry, but overall very delightful!

Nice little place good wines nice atmosphere
Check out groupon for coupons
Ended up being $ 5 per person for desert and wine tasting

I’m going to knock them down to 3 stars from my previous review. I’m basing it on 2 things-​my experience there this past weekend, and the fact that I live an hour away, and it was not worth the drive. It’s not a bad winery by any means, and the staff is friendly and there are a number of enjoyable wines. This winery is kind of no frills in comparison to a few other wineries I’ve been to since my first visit. My husband and I went for their «spring fling” wine weekend, and were pretty disappointed. It was basically 4 – 5 cubes of grocery store cheese, a slice of bread, and a strawberry, along with your choice of 8 wine tastings. Unfortunately I was comparing it to the wine & cheese tasting Benmarl had for Valentine’s Day, and it fell quite short. Most of the wines from this winery tend toward the sweet, dessert wine variety. They’re not bad, but I’d consider them more ”sipping” wines vs something I’d want to drink a full glass of. They’re decent enough, but nothing I’d rave about, and we picked up a few bottles (claret, mist de greco, black raspberry, and the blush). However, I must say that it would be more inviting if there were some small tables, or even bar stools. The tasting went very quickly since you stand at the bar, they pour a tiny amount, you drink it, repeat. It would be more relaxing if they had some outdoor tables or an addition of a small café (they do have a small kitchen, as our desserts were assembled there when we went for the dessert wine tasting). In general, I don’t get the feeling that I would go there and hang out for a few hours, and perhaps they don’t want it to be that kind of winery due to space, etc. However, considering this winery is about an hour from me, I wouldn’t go back. If I drive an hour, I’d like to be able to sit down, drink wine, and eat, and take my time. It’s really geared more towards quick tastings and purchasing your wine to go home (though they do sell wines by the glass, but again, you have to stand, so…). Another thing-​our bartender was really nice, and was really friendly, and gave us an extra plate of food when we asked if it was possible to get more cheese, but… he had VERY noticeable B.O. After 20 – 30 minutes, I couldn’t take it anymore and since we were done with the tasting anyway, I had to get out of there. Not exactly the kind of experience you want to have while eating and drinking.

The strawberry wine was incredible!
Everything else was lackluster. The guy pouring our drinks was reading off a card and hadn’t even tried a lot of the wines we inquired about. I like a dry oaky wine and he was unable to make a suggestion.
I understand he was new or a volunteer but how was he not given a taste test? The venue itself was nice but not notable.

If you like sweet wines… this is your place. Unfortunately I’m not a fan so I didn’t really enjoy any of the wines. I took home the Mist Di Greco and didn’t like it as much as when I had it during the tasting. The strawberry wine is pretty good if you like sweet wine, and the raspberry wine would be amazing on ice cream. Maybe I will try that next time.
PS — they have a chocolate/​wine/​strawberry festival. The snack plate is amazing and totally worth it! Yuuuum.

Second time visiting this winery… First time was a few years ago during the Pasta Primo Vino event and today during the Strawberry, Wine and Chocolate event. From what I understand it’s every weekend till the end of October.
First thing I noticed was the very tight/​small parking lot. It fits about 20 cars or so but if the lot is full I don’t know where people would park their car?!
Upon entering, we waited a few minutes for someone to help us and take our groupon/​give us glasses/​explain how the tasting bar/​dessert bar worked.
The place was jam packed so we started with the desserts first. We got to sample marinated strawberries, chocolate covered strawberries, a brownie piece, a piece of yellow cake and cheese cake topped with whipped cream and chocolate syrup. Everything was okay — I would have enjoyed it more if I actually paced myself and ate and sipped — instead I scarfed it down while waiting to get up to the tasting bar.
As far as the wines go — I wasn’t too impressed with the flavors. Most of them had a very strong oak taste — yes I know they are made with oak or in oak barrels but I just don’t enjoy that flavor in my wine.
I normally am a dry/​red drinker but I preferred their semi/​sweet reds … Trilogy was really sweet but I liked it a lot as well as their Blackberry Port (?).
We didn’t buy anything but we did have a fun time. I would come back for another event — just hopefully next time it would be less crowded. :)

This was the second stop on a tour of the Hudson Valley wine trail my boyfriend and I did this past Saturday. I had read about their Chocolate, Strawberry and Wine «Festival», and I knew we had to go check it out. It’s $ 12, which gets you a tasting of all their wines (about 12), plus a plate of dessert (a chocolate brownie cake, a pound cake, and a chocolate dipped strawberry), and you get to keep the glass.
My boyfriend is a huge fan of icewine, so he loved all the wines here (which are generally on the sweeter/​dessert side). I highly enjoyed each wine we tasted here as well, including all the reds (not usually a fan). Our favorite was definitely the Trilogy (made with red raspberries), and their strawberry wine of course. The desserts were also pretty good (they were covered in a strawberry sauce made with their strawberry wine). To top it off, we were offered a tasting of their wine-​a-​rita, which my boyfriend likened to a wine slushie. It is definitely worth coming here, and they have such nice grounds.

Alec Baldwin has a vineyard?! Nope, maybe Billy?.. .it’s all good.
This is a really friendly little family run operation in the middle of not much. I am amazed by how quickly you can leave NYC and LEAVE NYC, be totally OUT of the citay.
This award winning family operation is a fun and worthwhile stop in the «not that far from NYC» suburbs. A really decent 2 piece band played as we sampled their offerings served by knowledgeable and friendly folks. The tasting was fun, not rushed and finished with a dessert. They do such a good job you buy a bottle or four of their wine before leaving.
A good time was had by all!

Whenever I make a list of which Shawangunk wineries I plan to visit, Baldwin is always first. It feels like every visit is a turn of the page in their story, because running the winery is such a big part of these folks’ lives. And horror of horrors, they «force» you to eat chocolate when trying their dessert wines. If you were to look up Strawberry Dessert Wine in the dictionary, a picture of theirs really needs to be next to it.
I’m at a point now where I rarely need to do tastings there any more. That can be unfortunate, because some of their special weekends make it worth it — get on their mailing list if you aren’t already.

Honestly one of my favorite wineries in the entire Hudson Valley. Usually, it seems that a place makes great fruit wines, and terrible grape wines, or vice versa. Not Baldwin. I frankly love most every wine they make.
Even their «cheap house white,» Mist Di Greco, is one of my favorite white wines around. They don’t bombard it with sugar, or mess around with fancy barrels, it’s just a good fresh white wine.
And no review of Baldwin would be complete without mention of their Strawberry wine… I know, strawberry-​flavored alcohol is not the manliest substance on the face of the earth, but this stuff is so delicious, I just don’t care. I mean it when I say that this is the pure essence of strawberries…
The drive is worth it. Orange County is a beautiful part of the world, and clearly a great wine area. Stop at Baldwin, and you’ll surely be leaving with a bag of bottles to take home.

To continue a day of joyous merriment with my circle of good close friends, my party of five and I trek onwards to Baldwin Vineyards from Warwick, NY to Pine Bush, NY. This business is literally a vineyard as they do not produce or grow their own grapes to ferment on the premises. The wine tasting bar oddly situates inside of a large clean furnished basement, although there is no cellar for patrons to explore but gather to click their glasses. We came here for the Strawberry, Chocolate and Wine Festival which occurs on select weekends for an inclusive price at $ 15.00 with valid proof of identification in compliance of New York State legal age law.
Baldwin Vineyards is family owned and resides in New York State’s Hudson Valley. There is a small kitchen that conjures brownie, chocolate dipped strawberry, and cheese cake to accompany the tasting included in the inclusive $ 15.00 price. Two unisex facilities are available. There is live music with a guitarist singing Christian songs as Godspell, 1973 Robin Lamont’s «Day By Day» though I wish he would sing «Light Of The World» as my personal preference. After an intensive tasting to my palette my personal choices are: Chardonnay; Blush; Port; Apple, and Strawberries.
The name Baldwin Vineyards reminisce the renowned actor, Alec Baldwin who I personally had the pleasure to occasionally serve him of his presence in my workplace, which he is a very nice, patient and appreciative person. Though bearing no blood relation ties to the renowned actor, Baldwin Vineyards has a quaint scenic pond with two benches and tables for patrons to pass the time in the company of good circle of friends.
Cheers to happiness, good health and SINCERE friends!

Don’t drink and Unilocal.Don’t drink and Unilocal Don’t drink and Unilocal.
Um, why not? I am at present enjoying a nice glass, or four, of Baldwin New York State Port. It goes down nice and easy and is quite warming in this autumn chill.
The L. and I recently made our purchase from the winery in person though Baldwin is available at our local megaboozery. The port’s color is a beautiful garnet like many of the leaves falling around me. For $ 35 a bottle it was a risk but luckily it worked out well.
The gentleman from whom we purchased the Port as well as a bottle of Ice Wine was very cordial (get it!) and though we did not do a tasting since it was the afternoon during the week, his passion for the product gave us the confidence that our purchases would not be in vain.
Though they are most known for their award-​winning strawberry wine I would like to humbly suggest they enter this port as it is really lovely. Good times then and good time now. Yay!!!
Baldwin is down for a return trip to restock the wine cellar.