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  • Crow at the Heart of Maryland Crafted

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    Photo above: Maryland Crafted Festival at Centreville, Maryland with spotlight visuals from The Sipping Point Podcast

    Crow Vineyard & Winery, now celebrating its 14th Year of Wine Farming, has always had a special philosophy regarding holding off-site events. “We have always recognized that our diversified farm, now a successful vineyard and winery is a very unique place to visit so we hold events at our farm and rarely do off-site events.” per Judy Crow Owner, Crow Vineyard & Winery.

    Crow’s approach to wine making reflects its authentic farm roots and an artisan sensibility, from growing their own grapes to staying true to their unique terroir, and their on site events focus on these aspects. So it was a no-brainer to be a Host VIP winery at the 2026 MD Crafted event in Centreville. “As the VIP host winery at this festival we have the perfect spotlight to illustrate what ‘maryland crafted‘ means at a very basic, authentic level.” according to Michael Zollo, Crow’s winemaker.

    The collaboration between Crow and Jana Howley, Executive Director Maryland Wine – a featured event sponsor, helped create a unique, pre-event wine tasting experience for the 2026 festival at Centreville. Bringing further insight as to the collaboration and the artisan wine crafting of Crow Vineyard & Winery, is a special podcast created by the Wine Coach, Laurie Foster.

    Buy Maryland Crafted Tickets here.

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  • Crow celebrates Maryland Wine Month

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    Come Celebrate Maryland Wine Month with Crow Vineyard & Winery all month long! We are celebrating this special month for the Maryland Wine Industry both on site and off site!

    Come visit our tasting room for wine tasting specials, sign up for one of our cuisine and wine seminar events. Are you a wine club member? Contact us about our special MD March Wine Month wine club offers.

    Visit us at the Maryland Wine Experience in Downtown Frederick March 20th-22nd!

    We will be pouring our wines alongside other Maryland Wineries at the Maryland Wine Experience later this month! Come represent Crow and try some of our other state wide local wineries during this two day wine fest! We will be at the Blending Seminar and The Grand Tasting. Tickets are going quick, so make sure to get yours today!

    Event and Tickets here

    Photo: Maryland Wineries Association

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  • Crow – One of the Best Wineries in Maryland

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    In this era of “insta-wineries” there are a handful of Maryland wineries who have not only developed their own successful grape to glass businesses but who have also supported the growth of other winery businesses. One in particular is Crow Vineyard & Winery whose innate farming philosophy was to understand how to cultivate great tasting grapes that would make authentic terroir wines.

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  • Crow’s Farm Diversification Model catches eye of Governor Moore

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    On a small corner of Kent County a family farm is supporting a very important part of the Maryland economy and tourism.  The Crow family, owners of a 3rd generation 365-acre farm, are real pioneers in the Maryland wine industry. Their vision to diversify the farm in a way that shares the farm winery experience with tourists from around the country is certainly paying off.  In June of 2023, Governor Wes Moore and Secretary of Agriculture, Kevin Atticks visited Crow Farm so they could see firsthand the  farming diversification and sustainability model that the Crow family respectively promotes.

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  • Wine Farming at Crow #3 in a Series

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    “Behind the Scenes” Wine Seminars at Crow

    At Crow we believe the ultimate wine experience is sharing how we make wine with those who wish to get a hands on experience with our authentically driven farm vineyard operations. As farmers, we are completely transparent about how we respect, till and cultivate our lands. Now a successful farm vineyard and winery, we seek to share how we craft wines that are 100% sourced from our farm vineyard.

    To this end, we conduct educational and interactive “Beyond the Glass” wine seminars each year where participants get an inside look into our operations and can participate in our winemaking.

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  • Wine Farming at Crow #2 in a Series

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    “Farm-Grown” Wines at Crow

    Our focus at Crow has been to expand our vineyard operations to the point where all our wines are made from grapes grown in the vineyard on our farm. We are happy to announce that we have reached this goal: our wines are truly “farm-grown” and we are in constant control of the wine’s journey from the grapes to your glass.

    In fact, you can walk out the door of the winery and, within a few steps, you’re walking alongside our vines. Moreover, the area you sit in while enjoying our wines is immediately adjacent to the vineyard grapes that made it. Continue reading Wine Farming at Crow #2 in a Series

  • Wine Farming at Crow #1 in a Series

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    Wine Farming at Crow

    In 2022 we are celebrating a milestone year marking 10 years of wine farming. We feel blessed to have been in the business of being a successful farm winery for these years.

    Wine farming is unique at Crow because of the fact that we were and are a farm first. Many wineries create a farm component after their establishment but at Crow the rich soils and farm work ethic existed already. Crow has been farming on the land we live and operate our business on since the early 1900’s. That’s a long time! We attribute our success to our authentic farm heritage and continued operations as a working farm which produces wheat, corn and soy and delicious grass-fed beef from our herd of Angus cattle.

    Our winery opened ten years ago in 2012 following two years of careful vineyard planning and planting. Combining skillful farming practices with our dedication to learning vineyard management has led to quality fruit for us to work with in our winery. Here are a few of our wine farming practices that have led to ten years of achievements at Crow. View Achievements>

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