I recently visited Hocking Hills Winery in Logan, Ohio. Hocking Hills started out after the original owners of the land moved on from farming and gave the land to their children. In 2007, a vineyard was planted on this land; it then became a winery and opened to the public in 2013. Some of the wine has won awards, and I managed to try a selection of white and red wines and wine slushies. These were accompanied with a cheese and meat board, which I also paid for. I've never been to this winery before, but I've been to other wineries in Ohio. Ohio has become increasingly popular for wineries in the past twelve years, although many of these are family-owned and operated small businesses.
Hocking Hills Winery provides eight wine tastings for a set price. The wine was poured into four glasses at a time, numbered and started from the top glass of the four.
Trillium was the first white wine I tried, and it is a blend of local and Californian grapes. It was a 2018 Bronze medal winner. The next one that I tried was Vidal Blanc, and all of the grapes in this wine come from Hocking Hills. The third dry white wine that I tried was Sauvignon Blanc, which is made of grapes harvested in California. I wanted to try the Chardonnay wine, but it was sold out.
I am not a fan of dry red wines, so I went straight to the sweet white wines. The first one that I tried was the Reisling made from Northwest coast grapes and tasted subtle and fruity. The second that I had was the Moscato, and I really enjoyed this one; it was my favourite of the wines that I tried. The third one that I tried was a Sweet Chardonnay, which is marketed as their sweetest wine but I thought that the Moscato was sweeter and tastier.
I tried one sweet red, and that was the Hocking River Red wine. It is a blended wine and is marketed as being a perfect winter drink after hiking in the trails at Hocking Hills. I really enjoy wine slushies, which are wine and fruit mixtures and something that seems to be available in Ohio but not here in England. (Read my post on Buckeye Winery in Newark, Ohio: A visit to Buckeye Winery). I had the choice between peach and raspberry, and I had the peach as I love the flavour of peach. The wine slushie tasted really nice, and I would actually say that I preferred this one to Buckeye Winery, which I visited again during my visit this year.
Petite Sirah was a dry red wine that was the favourite of the visitor with me, so we got three bottles of wine. The Petite Sirah was the most expensive of the wines on offer. Buying three bottles of the wine will remove the cost of a wine tasting.
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