Wine Trail

Ben and I went on the South Easter Indiana Wine Trail in November with our friends, Chris and Mandy.  It was FUN! :)  An adult weekend out... wine... friends... what can get any better?  We made it to Thomas Ridge Winery, Ertels Winery, Lanthier Winery, The Ridge Winery, Madison Vineyards, and Streamcliff.  We stayed in Madison, IN... and let me tell you- there is not a more cute, quaint, cozy town than that which is Madison!  It was amazing.  It's like something straight from the movies.  My friend Kristina, found here at Misters and Misses told me all about it.  :)

Here are some pics of our trip.  Sorry, I don't have the actual winery names next to the pics- it's because I can't remember which pic is taken at which winery.  Sorry 'bout that! :)

 We stopped at a place in Madison called BoneYard for dinner.  Follow this... Ben's Brother John- John's wife Ashley- Ashley's brother owns the restaurant.  So, Ben's sister-in-law's brother :)  Anyway, we called John (he lives in Madison) to see if we could meet up.  He was busy that evening, but told us to go there- and boy it was not a disappointment.  They have ZERO fryers- they bake everything!  Even their cheese sticks-which were AMAZING! :)  Next time you visit Madison, go to BoneYard!

They serve all kinds of beer... I'm not a dark beer girl, so I drank the Bud Lights :)  Which everyone else says is like water... haha :)  But they had all sorts to choose from.  really neat

Me and Mandy

THE LIST of micros you can pick from..

and THE LIST continues on the back side with Imports.

Me and Ben.  His eyes are bloodshot because he's tired.  He was fully sober here :)  promise!

We stop by this cute coffee shop in the morning.  I snap a pic and it's all wrong.  Ben pretends to be sleeping and it totally looks like Mandy is chewing Chris out.  neither of those are true...

So, I ask a passer-by to snap our pic.  She seemed a bit wierd, so I didn't ask for a new pic... even though I look like I have a beard.

On the pier in Madison.

You  could pay a quarter to see across the pier- not worth it.  You could see everything just fine, but Ben just HAD to try it.  ha

Testing out the panoramic feature on the camera.  Any idea how to develop these now??? I can't find a site that will develop panoramics anymore!

This one is in front of Lanthier.  Their Chataquablumtchen (pronounced sh-ah-tah-qua-blum-chin) or at least that's how I pronounce it! is the BEST!!!!

Pretty butterfly! :)

StreamCliff was my fav.  They had a horse theme and all their bottles had horses on them.

In all, we bought 13 bottles of wine (3 were too tall, and we gave 2 away as gifts... if you were counting my bottles and saying "Staci, there's only 8 there...) and after finishing the wine trail, they give you wine glasses.  It's safe to say, we will do this again next year. 

Leave me a comment, and tell me how do you like your wine?  red? white? dry? sweet?

As for me, I'm a semi-sweet girl.  red or white, I don't care :)