Indiana Wine Adventures

Like I said, I'm not going to completely review the handful of wineries I visited between September and December but here's my recommendation list. ***Please note: I am NOT a wine-tasting professional. I typically enjoy semi-sweet, sweet, dessert and/or fruit wines. I know this doesn't appeal to everyone's palettes so take my recommendations with a grain of salt. I also feel that the entire tasting experience is important, including but not limited to physical building/structure of tasting room, customer service, price of wine and location of winery. In future reviews, I will discuss not only the wine but also the atmosphere and accessibility of the wineries!*** Would Return to: Oliver Winery (Bloomington) Two EE's Winery (Huntington) Buck Creek Winery (Southeast Indianapolis) Country Heritage (LaOtto) Easley Winery (Downtown Indianapolis) Fruit Hills (Bristol) Gateway (Goshen) New Day Meadery (Fountain Square, Indianapolis) Owen Valley (Spencer) Chat...

Hey y'all! As most of you probably know (or have seen on Facebook), a bucket list item of mine is to visit all the Indiana Wineries. I finally entered the "adult world" and thought I needed an "adult hobby" ... wine tasting it is!  I found my original list on www.indianawineries.com  in September 2016. However, I recently shifted to using Purdue University's list found on www.indianawines.org (small difference in name, but BIG difference in quality of website and reliability of information). I decided to not set a time limit on my adventures because I wanted to keep them as adventures, not chores to accomplish. I don't have much method to my madness, just going with the flow (another goal of mine). If I have a free weekend I check out the map to see which wineries strike my fancy and see if any friends or family want to join. I weirdly enjoy making itineraries so I try to research each winery to learn operating hours, cost of tastings and other key ...