Kristin and I had a bit of a time deciding what we wanted to do yesterday so in the late afternoon we headed to Southern Illinois. If you haven’t checked out the Shawnee Wine Trail, we recommend it as a must thing to do.We started at the Blue Sky Vineyards, this place is amazing looking. It’s strikingly odd, you are driving down these bearly two lane roads out in the middle of no where. I mean you look left and you see a field, you look right and see woods. Then all of a sudden on the right is a green grass hill with these very good nice looking gates! Kristin loved that they had this huge metal art work of a buffalo. This winery was quite the site. It’s main building appeared ot be Ranch style. Inside the tasting area was a large valuted ceiling with orneight plaster and painting. Outside was a patio over looking this man made lake and rock waterfall. Beyond that you could see more vineyards of vine not yet yeilding green leaves and grapes. Although they were out of their wines that I would have preferred, we still enjoyed tasting the remaining choices.

Next we were off to the Owl Creek Vineyard. Now this place was more our speed. First they had a huge black puppy laying at the door, that we later found out his name is Walter and he is part Lab, part Mastiff, and part South African Newfoundland. He was very cool. Th

e tasting room was upstairs and it was only us and the vineyard’s owner. I was very impressed, because we actually had the chance to learn about his wines and vineyard.

I had a good time and can not wait to go back and hit the other wineries.

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