White Shutter Winery and Brewery offers a selection of wines and craft beers in a pleasant location. The venue prides itself in events throughout the year with local food trucks. When we arrived, live music was playing, and the venue was popular and busy. Located on Route 30, the winery can be seen from the main road. It's in Nevada, Ohio, which is close to Upper Sandusky. This was our last winery of the day that we visited, and it was in the evening toward dusk on a very pleasant evening that was warm but not humid.
I had a selection of primarily white wines to try in the wine tasting flight; normally they are the same flight with a selection of whites and reds, but the staff were very friendly, and she made up mainly white ones for me to try since I am not keen on red.
The vines were planted in 2009-2011, and the brick farmhouse dating from the 1830s is the winery tasting rooms. The winery was opened for tastings in 2014. Outside are fire pits, a stage for the live music, and volleyball courts.
The wines seemed to have a 1960s and 1970s theme with the names.
There were a couple of tasting rooms in the house, and we sat in one of these rooms.
The wines I tried:
Porch Swing: A dry white wine using Traminette grapes with pear flavours.
Summer Breeze: Semi-sweet Reisling grape wine with a honeysuckle aroma.
Sweet Dreams: This white wine uses Brianna grapes, which are a sweet variety.
Happy Daze: A sweet wine with honey flavour using the Edelweiss grape variety.
Blues Man: Described as a sweet wine with a blueberry pie flavour.
I also had a strawberry slushie wine.
The wines were on the sweet side and had a good flavour, but I cannot pick a favourite.
There are some nice views of the vineyard.
We enjoyed listening to the music while we played with two kittens for a short time. I was really worried about the two kittens as they were so friendly, and I was worried about them being near the cars, especially when it's dark and people go to leave the live music. The kittens were very playful and so loveable. I hope that they will be ok.
This was a lovely winery and a lovely venue with friendly staff.
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