Tom Retires It is most likely without a doubt you’ve run into Tom McKinstry, a.k.a. Tommy Boy, either here at the winery or running around town in his hot red Indian Creek Winery truck and at many Business After Hours, Chamber and community events. After over a decade of working here at Indian Creek Winery,
Have a look at our new sign….we’ve realized the old white sign was nearing it’s lifespan and set out for a new sign. Costs to purchase a new sign were pretty spendy so I decided I would embrace a new art form and make the new sign. We found this amazing plastic material that allows
Thanks to everyone who came out for our Father’s Day event: Happy Pappy’s Day! Many more thanks go out to our helpers: Dale, Bob, Cheryl, Jake, Crystal, Laura, Bonnie, Jack, Tom, Shane, Lauren, Mike, Kaiya, Teresa and Justin! Good times included wonderful music by the local band: the Hokum Hi-Flyers, delicious Thai food and Italian
Last Friday we had a wonderful event that will go down in the Indian Creek Winery record books: a Vertical tasting of 8 Pinot Noirs for our Wine-Thirty Club Members! Here’s what we pulled out from the library: 1987 Pinot Noir (our very FIRST pinot noir!) · 1992 · 1997 · 2000 Reserve · 2002
Today I went out to the Rollingstone Farm to pick up the cheese for our Spring Release Weekend (April 15 – 17). I first discovered Rollingstone and met Charles (Chuck) and Karen Evans a few years ago and boy, I have been hooked ever since. I’ve always had a pleasant greeting from their giant white
What’s all the fuss? Why all the pink and red, hearts and sparkles? It’s Valentine’s Weekend at the Winery, that’s what! Any chance Tammy gets to pretty-up the winery, she goes crazy. Crazy-good. We had the full line-up at the bar for sampling including the new release of our 2008 Star Garnet, as well as
Harvest 2010 was a beautiful one this year and besides the perfect Indian Summer, we believe it was partly because of the great turnout for our Harvest Festival! So many friendly faces and what a fun time it was. We couldn’t believe the number of visitors we had (thanks to the sunshine!) and now that
Wow! This year’s Man’s Best Friend Malbec Release Party was a blast! At last year’s Man’s Best Friend party my dad, Mike and I were sitting there thinking…”This is too weird of an event…noone’s going to show…” but we had a turnout of 30-40 pooches. This year we had nearly 70-80 doggies swing by throughout
Here are a few photos I took of the vineyard and grounds yesterday. Things are finally starting to look good around here:
Although we are not big into wine competitions (we believe YOU should be the judge of what you like), we do enter a couple every year: the Northwest Wine Summit and the Idaho Wine Competition. Below are the results for the 2010 NW Wine Summit. While many of the award winners are yet to be
Here are a few photos we took from around the vineyard over the last few weeks: A Pinot Noir bud begins to push in the Stowe Vineyard