Events

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?

Have you ever wondered if that old axiom is true, do wines get better with age?  Well, find out this weekend at Turtle Run Winery as we are set to host our annual "Blast from the Past".  With 25 years of winemaking, we have a section in the winery reserved for older wines, dry, sweet, red and white. This is your opportunity to sample and savor older Turtle Run Winery wines and purchase some too!  The "wine list" will constantly change over the course of Saturday and it will reset again on Sunday, so literally both days will have different offerings.  And yes, we will sell out of wines constantly.  There will be a limit on how many of an individual wine we will sell to an individual or family.  Please share and don't be selfish. We want to see how our wines are aging, that's part of it.  And sometimes we age wine just because we knew the wine was great and wanted to try it years later.  We do know, or have a very solid hypothesis that wines with minimal intervention (fining agents, added tannins, liquid oak, things like that) will age the best.

Come out today, December 29th, Sunday, as we "need" to sample our barrels.  In actuality, we do need to sample our barrels to see how they are aging, to map out blends and to top them off.  Barrels don't leak, per se, but rather wine evaporates through the staves which creates ullage, or a very thin atmosphere in the barrel and this thin atmosphere produces micro-oxidation, which can enhance fruitfulness in the wines.  Additionally, oak imparts flavors and older barrels, inert of oak, still add complexity to the flavors of the wine within the barrel. We had a fun time tasting barrels on Saturday, with more to come today!