About Us

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J. Bird Wines is a family run winery located in the country side of Minnesota just outside the town of Cambridge.

We were licensed in Minnesota on May 1st 1984. We hold Minnesota Winery license #5, making us one of Minnesota`s oldest wine producers and Minnesota`s first commercial mead producer. We are celebrating our 40th year in 2024

Our specialties are making Mead and fruit wines. Mead is a wine that is made from fermenting honey.

We mostly sell our products at local Renaissance Festivals. Our home fest is the Minnesota Renaissance Festal based in Shakopee, MN. We have also supplied mead to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Twig, Minnesota, and the Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Festivals in the past.

The Founder of our winery is James E. Bird. He and his friends started by just making wines in their basements and sharing it as a hobby. After Jim was told it was very good wine, he then starting entering competitions for wine making. When the results of the competitions came back with many blue ribbons for Jim, he decided to become a professional. Jim passed away in 2021.

The Winery has been passed on to Jims’s granddaughter Jessie Bird and her partner Matthew. We have been doing our best to keep Jims dream alive. We are slowly growing the business to hopefully be one of the best producers of mead the world had seen.

Contact Us

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J. Bird Wines Inc.
36337 Polk St Ne
Stanchfield, MN, 55080

Matthew Winters
Sales & Marketing
Phone: 763-689-3920
Email: mattw@jbirdwines.com