Red Hook, NY
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Mighty Donuts
Mighty Donuts is a specialty donut shop located in the village of Red Hook offering a variety of handcrafted donuts made with locally sourced ingredients. With a menu that features both classic and innovative flavors, Mighty Donuts also services a full menu of breakfast and lunch sandwiches, coffee, and espresso.
Rose Hill Ferments
Rose Hill Ferments in Red Hook, NY, is a cidery and winery devoted to the art of low-intervention fermentation, where sustainability and creativity go hand in hand. Led by head winemaker Matthew Sanford, formerly of Alai Cider in Chile, the team focuses on transforming apples, pears, grapes, plums, cherries, currants, blueberries, and more into expressive, small-batch wines and ciders. Every ferment is crafted with estate-grown, wild-foraged, or locally sourced fruit, handled with care through traditional methods like foot-stomping, whole-fruit fermentation, and native yeast fermentations. The goal is to let each harvest and variety speak for itself, reflecting both the farm’s ethos of zero waste and the distinctive terroir of the Hudson Valley.
From its beginnings in 2018, Rose Hill has embraced experimentation, often blurring the line between wine and cider through co-fermentations and pét-nats that highlight the diversity of its crops. Sanford and assistant winemaker Sam Rogers—who brings experience from France, Germany, Oregon, and California—approach every batch as a new opportunity to explore flavor, texture, and tradition. Signature offerings like the easy-drinking Kitchen Sink cider or Pearly Dewdrops, an ambrosial blend of plums, apples, apricots, peaches, and nectarines, showcase the cidery’s commitment to inventive use of fruit. Their pét-nats, Bird Bath and Lulie, embody the raw and unfiltered spirit of the cellar, earning praise for their bold, natural character.
At its core, Rose Hill Ferments is about making the most of what the land provides. Founded by Bruce and Holly Brittain as part of a shift toward more holistic and biointensive farming practices, the cidery emerged from a desire to turn surplus crops into something meaningful. Today, it has grown into a celebrated destination for those seeking wines and ciders that are as sustainable as they are unique. Visitors can sample the latest releases at the farm’s newly opened taproom or order online, discovering for themselves how Rose Hill continues to expand the boundaries of what fermentation can be.
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