Turtle Run Winery

My afternoon rainy project! A Turtle Run Winery newsletter. I cover in depth the making of the new red, SledgeHammered. I discuss this Saturday, the 5K run, the concert and bonfire as well as the woodfired grill. I do mention a couple of other new w**es too, Merlot and Boggle My Mind. I talk about adding another date to our very popular Blast from the Past w**e event -- this Thanksgiving weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and lastly I discuss a positive health journey I have been on since July. I feel GREAT! And 20 or so pounds later....No drop in energy, no hunger pains, no meds. I caution, check with your doctor!

Turtle Run Winery: 5K Run, Concert, Grilling and Bonfire this Saturday, Blast from the Past Thanksgiving Weekend

This Saturday at Turtle Run Winery. Whoosh, big weekend crammed into a day. First, we host a 5K run in the AM. Then, about 1:00 or so, we host Rockslide, a great rock band from 1:00 to 5:00 or so. We should have our grill going or a food truck. At 3:30 ish, we light the woodfired grill in the Medieval Pit out back you can grill -- we call it BYOSteak! Then a little while later, we light the annual bonfire. And we go into the evening, hours past our normal 6:00 closing.
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11-1-26
The concert is CANCELLED today
due to rain.
Jim will open older w**es🍷

Looks like light showers all day in the forecast which makes us need to cancel the awesome concert with Nervous Melvin & The Mistakes at Turtle Run Winery. Gosh, I like their groove and song selection. Dang it!

We'll pop some more oldies to go with our newbies on the w**e list. Always remember the oldies are bonus tastings!

Next concert is this upcoming Saturday with Rockslide and the 5K run in the morning and bonfire and wood-fired grill going into the evening.

I wish the weather looked like this picture from just a few weeks ago!

The staff and I had some blending fun this week. The spice and complexity of SledgeHammered, a red that is not quite dry, took two days to pull off, with two blended red barrels left behind it its wake. Totally worth it and I know I can really play with the two barrels. We get requests for SledgeHammered about every other week and those requests stay firmly planted in my mind. Deep fruit, with a ton of spices, cinnamon and clove come to mind, and an incredible long finish. Whew.

Boggle My Mind is another one of those fun, classic labels of ours and this w**e screams smooth, balanced, with lots of tropical fruit and pineapple notes (which i guess is a tropical fruit, right?)

Merlot.....ahhh....bold, expressive and 100%!

The Spectrum -- new version, very similar to the last one.

Max's Small Batch Red -- same as before but aged 2 more months in Laura's barrel. Can you tell the difference?

Last weekend we skated right by with our super popular "Speak My Mind" and took it off the w**e list this week. To no avail! Regulars gobbled up the last bottles, so we chose Friday to finish the bottling week off to blend and bottle this sweet red gem. We did it without templating and by estimating. It took a last second dab to nail it, which is a fun way to blend and bottle.

Enjoy these w**es today!

And don't forget, this is Saturday which means 4-6 older w**es available for complimentary tastings! When you don't have the additives, the w**es can age and age.....

This Weekend at Turtle Run Winery....Saturday, 4-6 extra tastings of older w**es will be opened to tempt your taste buds, plus a few new w**es we've been blending and bottling this week! I should put one of our great many fall pictures from out here or take one today, but it's a little early in the morning when I am posting (before swim)

With Sunday's ever bouncing forecast, we welcome Nervous Melvin & The Mistakes, hopefully, from 1:00-5:00! Yes, new time due to Daylights Savings Time. I love the groove this band plays. The song selection is fabulous and the sound is completely unique and really good!

Today, Sunday, we welcome the exceptionally talented and dynamic band, The Brass Pack to Turtle Run Winery, playing popular hits with horns from 1:30 to 5:30. This is an exceptionally talented band with 4 lead singers and they have this great vibe on adding horns to songs that may or may not have had horns in the original recording.

Also, with rain forecasted right now for next Sunday's Nervous Melvin concert, today could conclude our Sunday concert series, so come on out.

The following weekend, Saturday, we host a 5K run in the morning, have Rockslide playing in the afternoon, then the bonfire in the late afternoon and evening.

Here is a picture of Jim who redesigned our sign this summer. Fantastic job!!!

It’s a perfect day to come listen to some music with Brass Pack from 1:30-5:30🎶
Bring your chairs and a picnic🍷🐢
NO OTHER ALCOHOL ALLOWED BY LAW
Down Syndrome of Louisville will grilling🌭
Boogie Down Crew will dance during the first break🎶