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Reviews of Butler Winery and our Wines
Tom DiNardo, a freelance writer for Wine Enthusiast, Decanter, Santé and Wine Adventure Magazines, wrote about his experience as a judge at the Indy International Wine Competition and his favorites from the judging.
Read this article at winesquire.com about his view of the Wines of the Midwest including our Chambourcin Rosé, Vidal Blanc Ice Wine, Indiana White and Red Select.
And another fellow of interest, Charles, who writes the Indiana Wine Blog, has a review of our award-winning 2008 Chambourcin Rosé.
He has previously written about our Blueberry wine & his visit to our winery.
Winery Events, Festivals, News & IUWT Happenings...
Vintage Indiana Wine & Food Festival is Saturday, June 5th in Military Park in Indianapolis. $25 at the gate gets you a logo souvenir wine glass & samples of wine from 26 Indiana wineries! There will be: local food vendors, live music, a kids' zone, & a wine and food experience pavilion featuring wine and food pairings with Indiana's top winemakers and chefs.
Also, the Indiana Uplands Wine Trail wineries will hold their grand prize drawing from the 2009-2010 IUWT passports for the following prizes: a beautiful sterling silver & amethyst custom made pendant, a night's stay for two at Back To Nature Cabins, Scout Mountain B & B, & Harvest Moon B & B, not to mention all the other prizes that we will award. Grand prize winners do not have to be present to win, but there will be other cool things we'll be giving away to a few lucky attendees, like $20 gift certificates from each of the IUWT wineries!
Just released two more new wines: Chardonel 2009 ($13.95) & Vineyard Rosé ($8.95). They are both fantastic! We are really turning out some great new blends & varietals right now. Come & taste the new stuff to see how very good they all are!
Newly released: 2009 Chambourcin Rosé, 2009 Vidal (the very first Vidal vintage from our own grapes), and Traminette as well as new bottlings of our every popular Indiana White, Vineyard Red & yummy Blueberry wines. Check our wine list for more information.
Just posted a list of Grand Prizes on the Indiana Uplands Wine Trail website for this year's winners! Be sure to get your passports finished by May 31st so you can be entered & have your shot at winning one of our wonderful prizes! Here's a picture & description of the Grand Prize, valued at over $600!
Handmade by Merrill Hinshaw of Hinshaw Rocks, 1232 S CR 650 W, French Lick, this one of a kind pendant has six handcut and polished AAA Brazilian Amethysts and is mounted in sterling silver made exclusively for the Indiana Upland Wine Trail. This is just one of the many prizes we are offering this year. The full list is available at indianauplands.com
Come visit us on the Indiana Upland Wine Trail during the third weekend of April, the 17th & 18th for A Toast to Spring (& Traminette!) Get some cheese with your wine during this fun, free event at all wineries on the IUWT. Each of us will be offering specially selected cheeses to pair along with our own Indiana-grown wines.
Traminette, Indiana's new signature grape will be a focus at each winery as well, so be sure to taste our new Indiana Uplands grown Traminette when you visit us at the vineyard or our intown shop. Our Traminette will be released soon, so stop in & try it on!
Soon to be released this month- Traminette, Vidal, and the 2009 Chambourin Rosé! The labels are being printed right now... These wines are absolutely awesome! Come soon, Taste, & Take some home with you.
Red Select is back in the bottle again! This is an an absolutely fabulous, easy drinking dry red. Always, Amy's favorite, you must taste it on your next visit!
List of newly released wines - Blackberry is now available after a several year hiatus from our wine list, this very popular fruit wine has finally returned! Black Currant - this is a lighter fruitier blend than the last batch, but still packs the powerful sweet tart currant flavor. Vineyard White - A new bottling as of January,
this is a lovely blend of 62% Chardonel, 30% traminette & 8% Catawba juice. It's reminiscent of a late harvest wine with the delicate grape flavor of the Catawba coming through. Yummy & definitely affordable at a mere $8.95 per 750mL bottle!
Results from the 2009 Indy International Wine Competition: Our 2008 Chambourcin Rosé received a double gold and won Rosé Wine of the Year! The Chambourcin Rosé was also awarded the Indiana-grown French American Wine of the Year!
Other medals include: Vidal Blanc Ice Wine- gold, Red Select & Indiana White - silver, and our Vineyard Red, Late Harvest Vignoles, & 2006 Chambourcin- bronze. View the press release.
This is the first time an Indiana winery has won such a major trophy at this international wine competition- our Chambourcin Rosé was one of the five wines that was considered for the overall best of show!
Indiana Uplands wineries bring home over 50 medals from the Indy International! View the press release.
Butler Winery was named "Best Uniquely Bloomington Attraction" by the Bloomington CVB for 2009! See a pic of our limestone B!
The Indiana Uplands Wine Trail announces a birthday & the new trail memento, a logo picnic blanket!
We've opened our third tasting room in Indiana! Come visit our new shop in Chesterton (in NW Indiana).
It is located at 401 Broadway, just a block from the park & site of Chesterton's European Market. We offer wine tasting & sales, wine accessories, &
a small selection of homebrewing & winemaking supplies. Links to two news articles from area newspapers about Butler Winery Chesterton can be found here & here.
We are now shipping to Florida! If you are a Florida resident & a lover of Butler wines, contact us to order some! (you must be 21 & have a valid ID in order to receive a wine shipment)
Indiana wineries may now ship to Indiana residents as long as they have filled out the direct shipping verification form during a visit to our winery & the package is shipped including an adult signature requirement upon receipt.
Not added to the list above yet, but you can now find Butler wines in many Kroger stores in Indiana!
Our Indiana White is served at the Governor's Mansion! - Read about it in our July 30th press release
An excellent article about the direct shipping issue in the Sunday March 4th issue of the - Terre Haute Tribune Star
Visit our webstore to browse or shop for brewing & winemaking supplies online.
Go to our brewing & winemaking supplies page to check it out!
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