We’re BAAACK! And this time, it’s official.

Crosswicks Creek Estate Winery Newsletter

Winter-Spring 2026 Edition

In May 2026, the Crosswicks Creek Estate Winery was granted its New Jersey winery license

by the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission. After five years of plans, pivots,

paperwork, perseverance—and more than a few sleepless nights—we are finally, legally, a

winery. Hooray indeed!

If you’ve ever driven through Monmouth County in late summer, you know there’s something

magical about harvest season in the Garden State. For us, that magic is just over the horizon.

Since grapes are harvested in the fall, our first estate wines will come from this year’s harvest.

As an estate winery, our mission is simple but deeply meaningful: to craft wines that express

this land—its soils, its seasons, its sunlight—and to capture what Monmouth County brings to the aroma, texture, and flavor in your glass. Waiting isn’t easy, but we promise it will be worth it.

Our journey here was anything but straightforward. What began as an ambitious new-

construction project next to the Crosswicks Creek Estate Winery’s Avventura Vineyard in Upper Freehold Township gradually evolved through architectural drawings, public meetings, engineering revisions, regulatory hurdles, construction estimates—and … a global pandemic.Throughout it all, we believed that the dream was still alive, it just needed a new path.

Enter Plan B.

In May 2024, we found it: a beautiful 15-acre former horse farm in Roosevelt that we instantly

knew could become home to Crosswicks Creek Estate Winery. By June, we had secured our

Federal Winery License, and we began transforming paddocks into vineyard blocks—planting grapevines and apple trees, envisioning future harvests, and watching the property begin its next chapter.

An 1,800-square-foot machinery shop was reimagined as our winery production building, and in November 2025 we received our certificate of occupancy. For the first time, we stood inside a finished space renovated for one purpose: making wine from grapes grown right here.

Now, the real work, the real excitement (and some heartbreak) — begins.

Through the winter this year we’ve been pruning and otherwise preparing the vineyard for the growing season. In mid-April we watched as the tender buds appeared on schedule, only to see many of them lost in a freak hard freeze event. But hope was not lost, our hilly vineyard had many varieties at higher elevations that survived almost without a scratch! We’re watching now as canopies fill, even on vines that sustained damage in the freeze of 2026. As summer proceeds, we’ll be looking forward to grape clusters expanding, colors changing and sugars rising. When harvest arrives in the fall of 2026, we’ll bring in fruit that reflects the character of this place we’re so proud to call home.

This is more than a winery project. It’s a commitment to New Jersey agriculture, to local

craftsmanship, and to creating a place where wine lovers can gather, taste, and celebrate the

seasons together.

We’re just getting started. Thank you for being part of the journey. best is yet to come. 🍷

Hang on for the ride.