Russell Orchards Farm Store & Winery

Russell Orchards Farm Store & Winery is a 120-acre family fruit farm in Ipswich, Massachusetts, owned and operated by Doug and Miranda Russell since 2008. The property has been a working farm since 1920, when Dr. Joseph Goodale first planted trees; the Russells took over in 1979 and renamed it from Goodale Orchards in 2000. Max Russell launched the licensed farm winery in 1988, and today Doug and Miranda carry on the winemaking. What distinguishes the winery is that nearly all of its fruit wines and hard ciders are produced on-site using fruit grown on the farm, with Wild Maine blueberries being the main exception. The lineup ranges from Baldwin Apple, Heirloom Apple, and Honey Lavender to Dry Blueberry, Wild Blueberry, Blackberry, Peach, Pear, Cherry, Apricot, Elderberry, and even Lilac and Dandelion. Fruits are picked at peak ripeness, fermented in tanks, aged with oak adjuncts, racked, and tested before bottling, with some wines aged as long as four years. Visitors taste in the main barn tasting room, where wines are offered by the glass or as flights. The farm also invites guests to pick their own fruit, visit animals, explore a 2,500-square-foot interactive fruit garden, and picnic on the hillside with food purchased from the farm store.

Written by Ava from public sources. Not written or reviewed by the winery.