Four Years and Counting...

Our four year wedding anniversary was last week, so we wanted to do something special over the weekend to celebrate. We took a little day trip down to Oliver Winery in Bloomington. It was the PERFECT fall day...warm, but not too warm, and lots of sunshine! The leaves were beautiful and the grounds were gorgeous. I knew it was supposed to be a nice place, but it definitely exceeded our expectations. If you haven't been there, you should definitely go. We're certainly not wine-o's, and we still had a great time.

We took a tour of the plant and learned how they make wine there, then we had a free tasting, which was a blast. The only thing I know about wine is that it's usually red or white, and I don't know how to pronounce the names of most of it. So it was fun to look at a list of wines and be able to try a sip of any of them. We apparently have the same taste, because we both didn't like dry wines...and thought the sweet wines were TOO sweet. All the wines we tasted that we liked were in the semi-sweet or semi-dry category. We ALWAYS buy Oliver's soft red and soft white at the grocery store, so it'll be fun to know different wines we like now!

After our tasting, we just walked around the grounds and sat on their beautiful deck out back. It really was a gorgeous place.

This is the stash we came home with...a half case of newly discovered wine that we REALLY like! Riesling, Camelot Mead (the wine that made them famous in the 1970s), Soft red (our old standby!), Muscat Canneli, Beanblossom Hard Cider (so yummy warm!), and Catawba. Our taster lady said their wine lasts for about two years unopened. That's about how long it will take us to drink all of this. :) And those are some roses in the background that this handsome guy bought me. :)