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Fabulous Estate Wines!

January 13th, 2009

Elk Creek Vineyards now has an even better reason (not that you need one) to get your family and friends together and plan a trip to the Winery! Two new Estate wines that you have got to try! Elk Creek Vineyards Estate Cabernet Franc and Elk Creek Vineyards Estate Chardonelle are now bottled and ready to go. Just listen to some of the words Elk Creek uses to describe these fabulous wines:

subtle, yet expressive
smoky aromas of barrel aging
soft textures
bramble fruit with fine grain tannins
hints of pepper and spice

My husband and I had the privilege of visiting the Winery and got a taste of both wines. They really are amazing! Not only are they Elk Creek Vineyard Proud but Kentucky Proud as well.

So what are you waiting for? Stop by the Winery at Elk Creek Vineyards and grab a bottle of the Estate Cabernet Franc or the Estate Chardonelle (or both). Or, you can always order a bottle online right from the privacy of your own home. Once you get a taste of these elegant Estate wines, you’ll be glad you did!

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Don’t Forget the Nouveau This Thanksgiving!

November 19th, 2008

Stuffing is to turkey what Nouveau wine is to Thanksgiving. You can’t have one without the other! At midnight tonight Elk Creek Vineyards will be releasing it’s Kentucky Chambourcin Nouveau just in time for your Thanksgiving celebration. Since Elk Creek’s 2007 Nouveau won Gold at the Kentucky State Fair you can bet this years batch will be just as well received!

Nouveau has bright, fresh, red fruit flavors such as cherry, strawberry and raspberry. It is not a wine to sniff, swirl and contemplate, but a wine to pour and party with. Due to the way it is made the astringent tannins normally found in red wines isn’t there, leaving an easy to drink fruity wine. It is about as close to white wine as a red wine can get. It is amazing to realize that just weeks before this wine was a cluster of grapes in the Elk Creek Vineyard. But by an expeditious harvest, a rapid fermentation and a speedy bottling, all is ready at the midnight hour!