Kentucky has many wineries now, and more are opening every year.  The winery boom has gone from 15 to 65  in the past 5 years.  We have done the Bourbon trail and now started the Kentucky Wine Trail.  We have been to several already, but now we have the KY Wine Trail app, so we are starting over. Yay!

We had a Groupon for McIntyre’s winery.  We had not been there so we were up for the adventure!  We headed out Bardstown Rd to Bardstown, KY to visit.

McIntyre’s is a small winery that focuses on fruit wines.  We all sat around the table and were given the list and a glass.  Our hostess, Debbie, brought us many choices to try. She gave us the history of each of the batches.  The Rose Petal wine story started us off: a couple came home from a visit to Germany and they had Rose Petal wine there.  They asked McIntyre’s to create a wine using the rose petals.  Well, they did! It was an interesting wine.

Some of the wines did not appeal to us due to their unique aromas; but we tried them anyway.  Many great tastes for such combinations including dandelion, daylily, mango, strawberry and even watermelon.  Such a variety!

And then there was the slushy!  They had watermelon and mango as samples today.  Rob and I had watermelon.  Yum!  Best new way to have wine.  They even sell the mix to create the slushy at home.  We bought 2 packages, and a watermelon wine!  Can’t wait to mix this up at home!

By far, this was one of the most fun wine tastings which we have ever been!

We left to head to Talon winery in Shelbyville.  We drove out KY-55 through Bloomfield to get there.  The road is a motorcyclist dream: winding through beautiful countryside.  There was even a gorgeous farm called Walnut Grove, reminding us of Little House on the Prairie.  Such a beautiful day for nice ride.

Talon winery has more standard grape wines. We were all lined up at the bar and given a list and a glass.  The tastes are $1 each or you can pick 6 tastes for $5.   Of course we both chose 6 tastings.  Blackberry is still our favorite!

Talon has live music on many Saturday afternoons. There was a band playing on the back porch.  The Winery was crowded and everyone was having a great time!

Our eventful day left us hungry.  We drove over to Cattleman’s across the street to enjoy dinner.  The salad bar was a big hit!  We all had eyes bigger than our stomachs – or the portions were really large – hard to tell. But we all left with containers of leftovers.  More good food for lunch tomorrow.  Awesome!