With Chocolate and Wine, everything's fine. Join us for our annual Chocolate Lover's Weekend, an Indiana Uplands Wine Trail event in which you can sample chocolates with wine! What could be better? Choose one of our famous chocolate turtles too! Dark? Milk? Or White? With improving weather, we will load up our two fire rings out front and have some good ol' natural wood fired heat to enjoy too!!
With Chocolate and Wine, everything's fine. Join us for our annual Chocolate Lover's Weekend, an Indiana Uplands Wine Trail event in which you can sample chocolates with wine! What could be better? Choose one of our famous chocolate turtles too! Dark? Milk? Or White? Doing it again the weekend after Valentines Day due to increasing demand for chocolate turtles, we over purchased. Oh well.
More enjoyable times at Turtle Run Winery this weekend. Sunday's weather looks great for lighting the fire rings, always a popular gathering spot. Saturday, storms, so no fire. But..... With limited time to put together our Wine Appreciation Classes, on Saturday at 5:00, I'll be discussing the science of our "flavoring" subconscious and the physics of wine glasses. I will completely shatter (pun intended) the notion of "red wine glasses" and "white wine glasses." I don't know if I will do this in the winery or the tent. I suppose attendance will determine that. Probably an hour's time. Just the standard tasting fee applies. I'm not really taking reservations, but I probably should?!?! Perhaps I should say, if you are interested, send me a message or a comment on this post. Just go on Facebook Cheers, Jim
Great tastings at Turtle Run Winery today, plus I'll light at least one fire ring! A little cooler to start off the day. Chardonnay anyone? Today, we'll taste 3 chardonnays, our 2024 which has been a hit on the list, and we'll compare it to an oldie as well as the pictured Chardonnay, bottled this week. A blend of 2023 and 2025! Huh? Call it classic old school Burgundy blending. The 2023 brings a sharp fruit flavor and has been a backbone for blending. The 2025 is fully aged on the lees, the spent yeast cells, and the grapes from these two vintages come from two very distinctively different vineyards. I quickly figured out two parts 2023 to one part 2025! Enjoy! Synthesis is the newest white wine label. Assisting Country Heritage Vineyard last fall from Fort Wayne, we picked up LaCrescent and Brianna grapes. The LaCrescent for this blend came from barrel fermentation, barrel 62. Brianna comes from tank fermentation and this wine was the wine I "De-iced" in January to remove frozen water to increase the flavor concentration. Softened with a little 2025 Chardonnay and bingo, here we go. Fire, warm weather, two new wines, two older chardonnays and today should be fun! Cheers, Jim
Perfect weather this Saturday and perhaps Sunday too for lighting the Fire Rings at Turtle Run Winery!! Running out of great cooler weather for the fires. So we'll fire the rings up tomorrow and Sunday too. Also, I'll add a few oldies to the wine list to sample and savor. I won't say what wines because if I did, I would change my mind by tomorrow anyway.
This Sunday at Turtle Run Winery will be our final Out Front Fire Ring fires for the season. Heck with 4 straight weeks of 80 plus degree days, it's been too hot to have them! But one last time to light the fires.
This year, we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Turtle Run Winery. This weekend, we'll taste older vintages of Max's Small Batch Red, Catherine's Blend and Joe's Jammin' Red. We'll also have commemorative bottlings of two special wines, Laura's Barrel Dry Red and Jim' Blend. Who has better taste in blending dry reds, Laura or Jim? We...shall...see. We'll also taste some very old original bottlings of wines too, yes, 25 plus year's old wines! Some fun pictures and other memorabilia will be on display, plus thumb through a binder of history of Turtle Run Winery plus....did you know that we come from a bourbon and whiskey producing background? From both maternal and the fraternal side of Jim, yes, whiskey. Here is a site link from his mom's side. https://www.pre-pro.com/midacore/view_distillery.php?did=DST371 . The 1896 brand comes from Jim's dad's side. Prohibition shut down both distillery operations. After prohibition, Ray Pfeiffer, Sr, Jim's grandfather worked for and became an executive at Glenmore Distillery. Literally, one generation skipped and voila, back the family roots sprout, this time in wine. Come out this weekend for some premium "Blast from the Past" wines and some fun new wines which we have been working on for a few years in anticipation for our 25th anniversary celebration!
This year, we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Turtle Run Winery. This weekend, we'll taste older vintages of Max's Small Batch Red, Catherine's Blend and Joe's Jammin' Red. We'll also have commemorative bottlings of two special wines, Laura's Barrel Dry Red and Jim' Blend. Who has better taste in blending dry reds, Laura or Jim? We...shall...see. We'll also taste some very old original bottlings of wines too, yes, 25 plus year's old wines! Some fun pictures and other memorabilia will be on display, plus thumb through a binder of history of Turtle Run Winery plus....did you know that we come from a bourbon and whiskey producing background? From both maternal and the fraternal side of Jim, yes, whiskey. Here is a site link from his mom's side. https://www.pre-pro.com/midacore/view_distillery.php?did=DST371 . The 1896 brand comes from Jim's dad's side. Prohibition shut down both distillery operations. After prohibition, Ray Pfeiffer, Sr, Jim's grandfather worked for and became an executive at Glenmore Distillery. Literally, one generation skipped and voila, back the family roots sprout, this time in wine. Come out this weekend for some premium "Blast from the Past" wines and some fun new wines which we have been working on for a few years in anticipation for our 25th anniversary celebration!
We kick off our season with the veteran rock group, Rockslide. This is good old classic rock. Rock, rock, rock. If you like rock and roll, this is your band. Sorry about the older picture, but hey, here it is March 31'st and I am loading up the concerts online. Our concerts are free and they are family friendly. You are welcome to bring food. We are normally selling grilled fare to benefit various programs from Special Olympics to Providence High School Swim and Dive. No other alcohol permitted. All concerts are outside. Wine tastings during concerts are outside. Wine can be purchased inside or outside. Cheese and crackers are available inside the winery. Grilled fare is sold on the east side of the winery behind the band. We have complimentary plastic cups. We sell wine glasses or you can bring your own wine glass. We suggest that you bring a lawn chair. Lastly, if you would like to borrow an ice bucket for your wine, great. We have them available, just please return them to the winery or the tent before you leave. Cheers, Laura, Jim, Max, Joe, Catherine, and our wonderful staff.
Today, we welcome Soul Circus, a high energy, groovy, funky, fun loving band that plays great dance music, sometimes spot on, but most of the time, they make their own adjustments to classic hits, which is absolutely fantastic! Our concerts are free and they are family friendly. You are welcome to bring food. We are normally selling grilled fare to benefit various programs from Special Olympics to Providence High School Swim and Dive. No other alcohol permitted. All concerts are outside. Wine tastings during concerts are outside. Wine can be purchased inside or outside. Cheese and crackers are available inside the winery. A food truck will be selling delicious edibles today. We have complimentary plastic cups. We sell wine glasses or you can bring your own wine glass. We suggest that you bring a lawn chair. Lastly, if you would like to borrow an ice bucket for your wine, great. We have them available, just please return them to the winery or the tent before you leave. Cheers, Laura, Jim, Max and Lauren, Joe, Catherine, and our wonderful staff.
Another New to Turtle Run Winery Band! We welcome FM502 today and they were highly recommended. Okay, I know who all of the band members are! The ever great Mike McDowell is on drums from Rockslide. Eric Kerr from the Iconics, from The Rigby's...yeah, you're getting the picture. A great group of musicians playing some great hits! Our concerts are free and they are family friendly. You are welcome to bring food. We are normally selling grilled fare to benefit various programs from Special Olympics to Providence High School Swim and Dive. No other alcohol permitted. All concerts are outside. Wine tastings during concerts are outside. Wine can be purchased inside or outside. Cheese and crackers are available inside the winery. Grilled fare is sold on the east side of the winery behind the band. We have complimentary plastic cups. We sell wine glasses or you can bring your own wine glass. We suggest that you bring a lawn chair. Lastly, if you would like to borrow an ice bucket for your wine, great. We have them available, just please return them to the winery or the tent before you leave. Cheers, Laura, Jim, Max, Lauren, Joe, Catherine, and our wonderful staff.
This is simply put, great music from a great band. The Julie Baker Project play songs from a wide variety of musical genres, including pop, rock, country, R&B, disco, soul and today's top hits. This is a dance band with high energy music, so be ready to tap your toes. Our concerts are free and they are family friendly. You are welcome to bring food. We are normally selling grilled fare to benefit various programs from Special Olympics to Providence High School Swim and Dive. No other alcohol permitted. All concerts are outside. Wine tastings during concerts are outside. We have plenty of shade. Wine can be purchased inside or outside. Cheese and crackers are available inside the winery. Grilled fare is sold on the east side of the winery behind the band. We have complimentary plastic cups. We sell wine glasses or you can bring your own wine glass. We suggest that you bring a lawn chair, but if you forget one, no problem as we'll lend one (or two or three...) to you. Lastly, if you would like to borrow an ice bucket for your wine, great. We have them available, just please return them to the winery or the tent before you leave. No cover charge, no parking charge, yeah....very old school, isn't it? Cheers, Laura, Jim, Max, Lauren, Joe, Catherine, and our wonderful staff.