Richard and Susie Hanson make old-fashioned fruit wines on the banks of the North Loup River — and their aronia berry wine won gold at the Pacific Rim International, grown on their own bushes out back. It’s the kind of small, specific excellence that defines Nebraska’s best rural wineries.
The setting is pure North Loup valley: scenic river landscape, a tasting room that feels like a farmhouse visit, food alongside the wine. The Hansons are the whole operation — when you taste here, you’re tasting their bushes, their recipes, their place.
East of Scotia on Highway 22, it’s remote enough to feel like a discovery. That’s exactly what it is.