Vineyard Wedding & Event Venue 🍇
Live Music & Wood fired pizza
Wine, Craft Cocktails and vineyard sunsets
Hortonville, Wisconsin📍
From the Owners or
http://whistlersknoll.com/ In August of 2011 Tom (AKA Whistler) and his wife Holly, purchased 13 acres of land in the town of Hortonia with a business plan to become a unique vineyard and winery. But out of nowhere, people began calling t
o ask if they could hold their wedding on our beautiful property. Because of that, we built the wedding pavilion, and ended up booked with weddings from May thorough October those first few years. It takes between 5 and 6 years for a vineyard to mature, and our grapevines were now producing a substantial crop. Fast forward to 2016 and we started the process of applying for a winery permit with the State of Wi. Whistler had been making wine in the basement of his home for over 45 years so he was excited to finally begin making estate wines and opening our tasting room. He had procured equipment from all over the world, and the winery was ready to go. We learned that in the State of WI, once you hold a winery permit, you can not also hold a liquor license (it is illegal to have both.) AND to complicate our wedding bookings even more, we found out wineries must close at 9pm. As we began sharing this information with potential clients, we quickly realized that IF we began making wine, all of our business would go away. Who would book a wedding if their guests couldn't even have an Old Fashioned, and everyone would have to leave at 9 pm? Whistler's dream was crushed. Instead, he decide to change our direction and sell our grapes to other wineries and continue operating as an event venue. From there the floodgates opened and we knew we had made the right decision. You can learn more about Whistlers Knoll and check out our upcoming public events for the entire year by visiting our website www.whistlersknoll.com
