Friday, July 5th at Turtle Run Winery. Thinking a lot of people are off work and perhaps looking for something fun to do. I don't do this often, certainly not often enough. I think I can manage this with our awesome staff today. For anyone who asks, we'll do one of my "Critically Acclaimed" sensory analysis on how the shape of a wine glass affects the acute flavors we perceive through volumetric pressure, vapor pressure, slope, flow rate, and the subconscious responses in nanoseconds to flavor and aroma recognition due to mouth vaporization location and rate. In semi-layman's terms, I can prove there is no such thing as a red wine glass, a white wine glass, but I can prove that wine does taste different out of different glasses and your perceptive like of this glass over that glass is tied to your individually unique biology. Anyone game? Come on out today! Cheers, Jim

Reed, Art and the gang are back! LB&E are known for good time music, especially those songs with horns. Expect some Chicago, maybe even a set or so. Very talented band.  Okay, there's an entire set of Chicago!  And it's great!  Lots of horns, lots of dancing, a great band to enjoy at Turtle Run! 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.

We are introducing two spectacular wines, Lauren's Blend and Max's Small Batch Red -- Wedding Wine. Lauren and Max were married last October and both of them blended a wine for the wedding. Max's is impossible to recreate and luckily we bottled an extra amount. Lauren's blend was one in which we theoretically could add to the wine list, so we designed a label and painstakingly blended the wine last week. Do these wines go with chocolate? I know one does! But which one?!?! Lauren's Blend should become a staple on the semi-sweet list right next to Catherine's Blend. Max's Wedding wine is very much a limited quantity wine. This Friday and Saturday!

We are introducing two spectacular wines, Lauren's Blend and Max's Small Batch Red -- Wedding Wine. Lauren and Max were married last October and both of them blended a wine for the wedding. Max's is impossible to recreate and luckily we bottled an extra amount. Lauren's blend was one in which we theoretically could add to the wine list, so we designed a label and painstakingly blended the wine last week. Do these wines go with chocolate? I know one does! But which one?!?! Lauren's Blend should become a staple on the semi-sweet list right next to Catherine's Blend. Max's Wedding wine is very much a limited quantity wine. This Friday and Saturday

Our second longest playing band at Turtle Run Winery is back! Join us for the good time rock-n-roll classics of The Monarchs! This band is THE Louisville Tradition. This is one of the bands that's a must hear if you want solid, solid professional music with crisp, clear, concise sound. Harmonies are spot on. Great energy and great entertainment for all. 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.

Harvesting grapes is on my mind! This Saturday at 7:00 AM or when you can arrive, we'll be harvesting St. Croix, Frontenac and Corot Noir grapes. If you would like to help, or your organization wants to help, great. The weather forecast has been dicey earlier in the week, but it's looking good for Saturday! Whoosh, right? We normally pick from 7:00 to 12:00 Noon. Some folks I know can't get here right at 7:00 and that's fine. 8:00 works too! FYI, how in the *&^%$ world did weeds grow so fast in 2 weeks? I just finished hand weeding the Frontenac vineyard and our teenage super helpers (back in school) hand weeded St. Croix and part of Frontenac. Hashtag, we don't like the commercial herbicides here! Here is a picture of catawba, another grape we grow and the difference in the photos is about a month in time. Cheers, Jim

Weaving effortlessly great pop hits from the 1970's forward, with great harmonies and instrumentation, we welcome Eric & The Iconics, a very talented band that will have you savoring the sound and dancing too. 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.

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!

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?

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 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?

This Saturday, we will have another one of our little ol' "Out Front Ring Fires." We'll open up an older vintage or two, because wine not, right? It's a relaxing day for enjoyable conversations around something that creates a lot of mental peace -- fire. I love the snapping and crackling and the smell. Just the entire sensation of controlled fires.... We call these our "Fireside Chats."  A relaxing time, indeed. This Sunday, with rain in the forecast, no fire, oh well.  But here's a great idea!!!  Ever hear there are red wine glasses and white wine glasses?  Of course you have!  But if you haven't, there is an entire industry built around this concept.  What if, through physics and physiologics I can explain very scientifically how we receive perceptive differences in flavor from different shaped wine glasses, but I will also be able to explain through your personal experience, with science, that the notion that there are red wine glasses and white wine glasses, down to the individual variety of grape is all based upon innuendo.  Should be fun.  Come on by -- something fun to do on a rainy Sunday.