The Cloudcroft tasting room for a New Mexico winery that started in Ruidoso. New Mexico-grown wines, cheese, charcuterie, and gifts inside the Burro Street Exchange. The slow-hour Burro Avenue stop for a tasting, a bottle, or a rainy-afternoon hour indoors.
The Burro Avenue tasting room for a Ruidoso winery, in the same Burro Street Exchange building as the bakery, the deli, and the tea shop. Go for a tasting, a bottle, or an after-lunch hour indoors. Not a place to solve dinner.
"A tasting flight across two or three styles. The lineup spans dry to port-style, so the flight is the fastest way to figure out what you actually want a bottle of."
Tasting flight (counter recommendation)
"A glass plus a cheese plate. Cloudcroft's afternoon weather flips fast; this is the indoor stop on the Burro strip that earns a sit-down."
Glass + cheese plate
"A bottle of the green chile wine. It's the New Mexico-only pick on the lineup, and the bottle that makes the best story when you open it back home."
Besito Caliente Green Chile Wine
Open seven days a week, 10 AM start every day. Sunday through Thursday closes at 6:30 PM, Friday at 7 PM, and Saturday at 7:30 PM. Hours come from the village's published Cloudcroft dining listing.
Inside the Burro Street Exchange building, the same address as Burro Street Bakery, Cloudcroft Sandwich Shop, and Old Barrel Tea Co. Mid-strip on Burro, walkable from the rest of the village.
Cloudcroft tasting room: (575) 682-6610
Web: noisywaterwinery.com
Main winery (Ruidoso): 2331 Sudderth Drive · (575) 257-9335
What this tasting room actually does well, and when to aim somewhere else on Burro Avenue instead.
The Burro Avenue sign at 505. More tasting-room photos will land as the spring shoot rolls out.
The village's published listing has the room open seven days a week from 10 AM, closing at 6:30 PM Sunday through Thursday, 7 PM Friday, and 7:30 PM Saturday. That's the latest closing window of any food-and-drink stop in the Burro Street Exchange building.
If a specific evening matters, a call to (575) 682-6610 the same day still settles it. Cloudcroft hours can shift in shoulder seasons.
This is a tasting room with cheese and charcuterie, not a full restaurant. Use it as a flexible stop before, between, or after meals. The Burro Street Exchange building also houses Burro Street Bakery, Cloudcroft Sandwich Shop, and Old Barrel Tea Co., so a "wine here, lunch next door" sequence is the easy move.
Counter service is the default. Treat it like a wine bar with retail attached.
Noisy Water runs a wine club through the parent site, and the official events calendar shows the Cloudcroft room hosting recurring evenings. Trivia nights, classes, and occasional movement events. If you're visiting on a weeknight, those events change the feel of the room.
Check the event calendar on noisywaterwinery.com before you go if you want a quiet pour or, conversely, a trivia table.
The parent operation is in Ruidoso at 2331 Sudderth Drive, a short drive from Cloudcroft over the mountain. Noisy Water's site says the family business produces "New Mexico True" wines from grapes grown across the state. The U.S. Small Business Administration profiled Noisy Water as a rural New Mexico business, noting Jasper Riddle bought controlling interest in 2010 and grew the company from a small winery and gift shop to multiple tasting rooms plus a production facility in Alto.
The lineup runs eight categories: dry, sweet, red, white, rosé, chile and specialty, sparkling, and port-style. The Cloudcroft floor is a slice of that lineup, not the full Alto production menu.
The Cloudcroft tasting room sits at 505 Burro Ave. The Cloudcroft phone number per New Mexico Tourism is (575) 682-6610. For wine-club, online ordering, or production questions, the Ruidoso main number is (575) 257-9335.
"Noisy Water is the Burro Avenue stop you use when the day needs a slower hour. Walk in for a tasting, leave with a bottle, and pair it with a cheese plate while the weather decides what it's doing outside. It works as the prologue to dinner at the brewery or the epilogue to a long Lincoln National Forest morning. Treat it like a wine bar with retail attached, and it earns the stop."
Call the Cloudcroft room before you head over if a specific bottle or event matters. The full village dining map shows every stop on Burro and James Canyon.
Three peer stops on the same walkable strip, or jump back to the full dining guide.
Specialty coffee & gallery · 200 Burro · west end
505House-blend teas · same Burro Street Exchange building
1301House beer, wood-fired pizza · live music · 1301 Burro
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