Indiana Uplands Wine Trail

Toast to Spring & Traminette on the Uplands Wine Trail

SOUTHERN INDIANA-April is the perfect time to enjoy a "Toast to Spring" weekend on the Indiana Uplands Wine Trail! Now in its eighth year, this ever popular event will be held April 17-18, 2010 and best of all - its absolutely free. Each winery on the trail will offer suggested pairings of the finest Uplands wines with savory cheeses. With everything from aged Cheddar & Havarti to Chocolate and Morel & Leek Jack --- this event is a must for every cheese and wine lover.

Featured this year is Indiana's new signature wine "Traminette". A hybrid of Gewurztraminer and a French-American Seyve grape, this grape yields a variety of styles of wine from dry to dessert and has floral aromas and flavors of orange, spice and honey. Toast to Spring allows you to become familiar with this versatile grape grown in Indiana as well as a host of cheeses to not only taste, but many wineries also offer them for sale to take home.

Touring southern Indiana and viewing Spring in bloom with dogwoods, eastern redbud, and daffodils is a great way to relax and unwind from a long winter indoors. Comprised of nine wineries - Winzerwald, Turtle Run, Oliver, Huber, French Lick, Carousel, Butler, Brown County and Best Vineyards - the Indiana Uplands Wine Trail (IUWT) was the first wine trail formed in Indiana in 2003. All of the wineries offer wine tasting, and many offer a delicious assortment of gourmet picnic foods, wine related gifts and cellar tours.

While enjoying Toast to Spring, participants may also complete the Indiana Uplands Wine Trail passport program and receive a picnic blanket as well as entry into the grand prize drawing to be held at the 2010 Vintage Indiana Wine Festival in downtown Indianapolis on June 5.

Visit www.indianauplands.com for winery hours and information.