Last week, friends and I went to McPeek's Mighty Maze corn maze in Coshocton, Ohio (USA). A few dates were added for the event "Wine Your Way Out", which included a trip through the maze with wine tastings in the maze. The tastings of wine from Raven's Glenn were paired with Pearl Valley Cheese and brownies, and each area contained two tastings of wine. In addition to the corn maze, tractor hayrides, games, live music and street food were available.
McPeek's Corn Maze is located just north of Coshocton at the Coshocton KOA campgrounds. I actually had a Girl Scouts camping trip here when I was very young, which was the first and only time that I ever went camping. It was summer, and it rained hard, and the miserable weather put me off going camping ever again.
Before we entered the corn maze, we were given a sheet with the wine tastings and a map if we wanted to use it and a small box of the food items to pair the wine with. These included squares of three different types of cheese (jalepeño, cheddar, and Swiss), a few walnuts, and a brownie.
The first stop included a sweet red wine Mad Raven. I'm not a fan of red wines, but this was a nice one.
The different wine tasting tables had a bowl of brownies, and this was paired with the second wine tasting at the table, the Raspberry Beret. It was a sweet red blended wine.
After finding the first table, we had to locate the second one in the corn maze.
The second station included my favourite wine from Raven's Glenn, the Reisling. This was a white wine. The other wine was a blackberry wine, and the brownie paired well with this one.
The third table also included two wines. The first was a Sauvingnon Blanc white wine, which wasn't really strong in flavour or didn't taste much like what I am familiar with as a Sauvingnon Blanc. It paired with the cheese. The second wine was a pink wine, known as "Strawberry Lemonade". It was a sweet wine and also paired with the brownie.
The last table included a dry red Merlot, which was my least favourite but paired with the walnuts or cheese. The second option, which was a pink colour, was called the "White Merlot"; it was a semi-sweet wine. It paired well with a brownie or cheese.
After the fourth table, we found our way out through the maze!
Bahler St. Pizza was the resident food truck on site for the evening. They had two different pizzas to choose from - a vegetarian one and a pepperoni one. The pizza was made with sourdough bread and tasted good. We ate the pizza and listened to a live band playing songs from the 1960s and 1970s.
Afterwards, we went on the hayride, which just went around the corn field.
There were many games to play and a 'sandpit' filled with corn kernels instead of sand. There was tubing, corn hole (pictured below) where bean bags are tossed to try to get into the hole, and ring toss games and a game involving rubber duck races. There were a couple of fires going as well.
This concluded our evening, and it got very busy later when we were about to leave.
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