w00t! My Favorite Winery Made the Tour
Southern Indiana has a wine tour. Having a town named French Lick with a winery is finally paying off. Our favorite wine is made just a few cornfields away, in Bloomington. Oliver Wineries. Oliver Red. Sweet, fruity, just like Welch’s.
A wine tour of south-central Indiana! Tourism bureaus just crack me up. I bet they got some of our tax money to fund the eco-agri-wino-tourism. Paid a vat load of money for their website too. But they still haven’t figured out it’s OK to ship out of state.
Indiana Lawmakers better watch out for the Baptists.
But a Baptist leader is protesting the idea of luring tourists with booze.This time it looks like the heathen booze-lovers won: brochures will list the eight participating wineries in Alabama. Those who visit all eight will get a special wine glass with all the logos from the wineries on it.
Heathen booze-lover?
Present.
@Gretchen: Ooooohhhhkay. woot.wine.com is CLOSEOUT WINE! w00t!
Oh no, I mean store shelves, not ours. We don’t have a wine cellar or anything high-class like that because we tend to drink our wines instead of stashing them away. I mean, we could get run over by a bus tomorrow.
I haven’t seen that site, but then again Ben and I are skeptical of wine-related publications and websites because we have our own, very distinct, non-fashionable opinions about wines and don’t give a damn what anyone else thinks. I’ll check it out though.
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I’m curious, why are your shelves “stuffed.” Do you have that many favorites? Or just multiple bottles for different occasions/meals/sorrows?
have you looked at wine.woot.com?
Sadly, in California we don’t have access to Southern Indiana wines, although I’d be interested to try them. Our shelves are stuffed with Cali wines, of course.
After the movie “Sideways” came out they started doing “Sideways” tours of the Santa Ynez Valley, where they hit all the wineries and restaurants from the movie. Insanely popular. Pissed us off, because SYV is an awesome, previously mostly unknown wine region. Now it’s overrun.
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@Brian: A hearty ringing endorsement of Southern Indiana Wines – you got used to it. 🙂
When we first moved to Bloomington for my stint there in living hell grad school, we found the idea of a winery in Southern Indiana laughable. But we visited a couple of times and bought wine to give to friends as gifts and eventually got used to the idea.
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