HoneyRun Winery

Specialties

We will have very LIMITED Hours during the first 2 weeks of January 2016. Please CALL for availability. (Usually weekdays 9 – 4)

Family-​owned HoneyRun Winery brings you delicious berry and fruit honey wines. Great for gatherings, before and after dinner. Our Honeywine is carefully made no sulfites added, with no preservatives. Kosher OU. A natural pleaser.

HoneyRun’s unique honey wines were first crafted in 1992, near Chico, California’s Honey Run Covered Bridge, and continue to be a delicious delight.

Well-​balanced HoneyRun Blackberry, Elderberry, Cherry, Cranberry and Dry Mead honey wines are easy-​to-​drink social wines. They pair well with picnics and parties, and make perfect gifts.

HoneyRun Winery ships directly to 10 States, and connects Honey Run fans with online retailers and stores in 42 more States.

You are in for a treat.

History

Established in 1992.

HoneyRun Winery was founded by John and Amy Hasle in 1992. From the beginning, Honey Run has made wonderful-​tasting, fruit honey wine without added sulfites or preservatives. The original facilities were at the Hasle home in a small canyon that sits in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Chico, CA.

John had been tinkering with honey wines for quite some time. Within a few years, friends were trying to convince John to get a wine license. «You have to let us pay for this. I have friends who would pay for this,» they would urge. Amy rolled up her sleeves and began the process of licensure. Named for the Honey Run Covered Bridge in Butte Creek Canyon, HoneyRun Winery was created, and Amy Hasle would take the title of Winemaker in 1994.

A year later, the winery outgrew its space in the canyon and moved to Park Avenue, just south of Downtown Chico. Still family-​owned, HoneyRun continues to make the naturally delicious Fruit Honeywines that have pleased friends since the early 1990s.

Meet the Business Owner

John and Amy H.

Business Owner

It may be a prerequisite for winemakers to be of a special breed, and Honey Run’s stock is no exception. The winery’s founder, John Hasle, learns independently by devouring books rather than seeking a human instructor. After four stubborn years of home-​brewing trial and error, John was producing Blackberry honey wine that was very welcome at weddings and parties.

Amy Hasle assumed the role of winemaker at Honey Run Winery in 1994. She brought with her a heavy background in math, chemistry, and a degree from California State University of Chico. Mead, fermented honey wines, and melomel, fruit honey wines, are not typical wine, and HoneyRun’s winemakers have accounted for the differences with meticulous detail-​work. While all winemaking requires great care, operating a Kosher OU meadery without sulfites requires extra careful winemaking techniques and high-​quality equipment.