Salt Creek Winery is at 7630 W. Co. Rd. 925N near Freetown, Indiana in (I think) Jackson County. The Little Woman and I were coming back to Indy from Louisville via a detour to SR 135 (due to her aversion to Interstate Highways and my driving on them) so that we could visit Mallow Run Winery near Bargersville on the way back, but as I needed to make a pit stop to see a man about a horse and maybe drop off the kids at the pool, when we saw the sign on 135 that said "< Salt Creek Winery 2" we decided to detour off the detour, and am I ever glad we did (and not just because of that pit stop thing)!
SR 135 is very, very pretty in itself, but the little county road back to the winery is right out of a Thomas Kinkade/Currier & Ives/Ansel Adams picture, and the gravel drive off the road takes you right into the front yard of the owners' beautiful home where the little winery sits. I dunno if General Steel or some other design company mass produces that type of building, but the exterior and interior layout of SCW is an almost exact duplicate of Buck Creek Winery in Acton (which I like very much). Whereas BCW overlooks I-74, the back porch of Salt Creek Winery overlooks wooded hills and a beautiful green valley that stretches away for several miles. We had a free tasting then each bought a glass of wine, and we drank them while relaxing in comfortable patio chairs on that back porch while enjoying the view and listening to the outdoor sounds of late summer/early fall accompanied by the giggles of two little children playing in the field that is the foreground for the long scenic view. The field is about an acre or so, and has a deck/stage at its edge that I suspect hosts small musical acts, on occasion.
Oh, yeah, the wine: I'm not really a connoisseur but their wines are very good, although not as bold in flavor as some others, more of a subdued, subtle taste, very smooth. The Merlot was very dry and thin, not nearly as strong as to what I'm accustomed, but the Cabernet Sauvignon was very tasty and the Sunrise Red was as good as any table wine I've ever tasted. My favorite by far, though, was the Chambourcin, which was very complex, several different flavors melding together perfectly. We're dry not sweet wine drinkers, but She sampled their Blackberry wine and although She deemed it too sweet for her, I thought it was, again, smoother and less bold than most other places' fruit wines.
It was an idyllic, relaxing experience. (Insert contented sigh here). We tarried as long as we could, but eventually resigned ourselves to going back out onto the road home. After this stop and another at Big Woods Brewing Co. in Nashville (look for a future post) we were, alas, too late to make it to Mallow Run, so that would have to wait for another day. :-) www.saltcreekwinery.com
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