Graybull Wines now distributing craft beers!

We are excited to announce beginning this month that we will be one of the few licensed wholesalers in Indiana to be focused on family owned wineries and now craft and regional beers.   Here are the first two beer brands to be launched over the next couple weeks:

• Butte Creek Brewing:  A line-up of handcrafted award winning earth friendly organic ales and lagers.   This brand was started in 1998 and recently Mendocino Brewing took over the production and sales for the US.   The line-up includes a Pale Ale, Porter, IPA, and Pilsner.  The entire line is certified organic by CCOF.  Visit their webiste at : www.buttecreek.com 

• Celt Beers: Celt Brewery is located in Caerphilly, England (Wales).  They are a cutting edge brewer producing a range of organic craft beers bottled in an award winning bottle design.  Their fantastic website www.celtexperience.com  emphasizes the lore of local druid spirituality integrated with the "art of beer".   The beers are all USDA organic certified and are only distributed in 9 states.  Their line-up includes Pale Ale, English IPA, brown ale, and porter.

We will continue to slowly add brands (organic and traditionally brewed) that are appropriate for our size company and most importantly represent great value at reasonable prices.  We welcome recommendations and references via email at sales @ graybullwine.com

Spring 2013 Consumer Tastings

 Join us at any of the following locations to sample some of our wines:

• Saturday, April 13th, Cork and Cracker Indianapolis 12-4pm (GREAT TURN-OUT!)
• Tuesday, April 16th, Wine Dinner: Trader's Point Creamery Indianapolis, South American Wines paired with locally sourced food.  6:30pm-9pm (OVER 40 PEOPLE ENJOYED THIS EVENT WITH EXCELLENT FEEDBACK ON FOOD BY CHEF BRANDON)
• Friday, April 19th, Wine on the Wabash in conjunction with Village Bottle Shoppe of Lafayette: http://www.wabashcenter.com/index/whatshappening.asp 7-10pm.
• Thursday, April 25th, Chef JJ's Backyard Grill, 6:30-8pm. 
• Saturday, April 27th, Sahara Mart East store, Bloomington, 12-4pm.
• Saturday, May 4th, Bloomingfoods spring tasting, Bloomington, 4-7pm.
• Thursday, May 9th, Kahn's Fine Wines (Willow Lake store), Diamond in the Rough, 6-9pm
• Friday and Saturday, May 17-18, Chef JJ's annual Eggfest outdoor event, over 1000 people attend to eat plenty of wonderful food, drink local beers, indulge in great family produced wines, and listen to music.  http://www.chefjjs.com/back-yard-team/history/culinary-experience/egg-fest/

Winter 2013 update

Our winter consumer tasting schedule continues to fill up with some great Indianapolis events coming up:

- Pearl Bistro, multiple Thursday wine dinners. http://www.pearlbistro.biz/ 
- Downtown Farmstand, Muncie, IN, 5:30-8:00pm. http://www.downtownfarmstand.com/
- Riveria Club, Valentine's Dinner, Saturday, February 16th, 6pm-9pm, http://www.rivi.org/
- Mass Ave Wine Shop, Tuesday, February 26th, 5:30-6:30pm http://www.massavewine.com/
- Indy Wine Fest, Friday, March 1st, 6pm-9pm: http://www.wfyi.org/winefest/wineFest.asp
- Taste of Rivi, Saturday, March 9th, 6pm-9pm: http://www.rivi.org/
- Trader's Point Creamery, Tuesday, March 12th 6-8pm in conjunction Green Drinks Indy http://www.tpforganics.com/ &  http://www.greendrinks.org/IN/Indianapolis

NEW PRODUCT LAUNCHES:
We are also launching two domestic brands that are innovative, with great backgrounds and most importantly producing great quality wines at a good value.

- Arizona Stronghold   A great partnership between highly regarded winemaker Eric Glomski and owner and co-founder Maynard Keenan; this winery is producing the only nationally distributed estate grown Arizona wines.  Their focus is to put Arizona wines on the fine wine map and are quickly building national recognition.  

- Ca'Momi Winery (Napa) We were extremely impressed with the quality of these Napa designation wines and blown away when we realized what a great value they represent.  We decided to represent them for Indiana.  The best support we could ever get was the first week the wines arrived into our Indiana warehouse,  Ca'Momi Winery was recognized as one of the Top 10 Hottest Brands by Wine Business Monthly. 

November 16th WTTS CD release party!

We are very excited to partner with WTTS for their Collector's Edition (Volume 18) CD release party to be held at Creation Cafe on November 16, 2012 from 6pm-9pm.   Album proceeds will benefit Rock To Read, supporting children’s reading programs through the Indianapolis Public Library. Proceeds will also benefit Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, a Bloomington-based food pantry. Proceeds from CDs sold at Indy Read Books on Mass Ave. will benefit Indy Reads Adult Literacy Programs.

Local, emerging artist Jason Aaron Koons will be providing live music and you can enter to win an invitation to the party on the WTTS VIP room webpage. 

The featured winery will be Santa Julia which is one of our top-rated wineries.   Santa Julia is Argentina's largest family owned winery and 6th largest exporter of Argentinean wines to the US.  The winery practices extensive sustainable and organic vineyard practices and provides housing, schools, libraries, and playgrounds for their 2nd and 3rd generation vineyard workers.

For the release party we will be featuring some of Santa Julia's highly rated, recently launched, and more unique wines.   There will be a tasting table to try the wines and Creation Cafe has generously agreed to serve the wines for purchase by the glass and bottle.  We will also be handing out wine keys and other swag. 

5 events in 7 days!

It's a busy time of the year for those in the wine business as we head into the all important holiday season:

•  October 13th (Saturday): Trader's Point Creamery 6th annual Oktoberfest, 12pm -7pm.   Proceeds benefit Trader's Point Historic district (we also live in this area so donate time, labor, and some wine).
• October 17th (Wednesday): Pinot Noir throw down at Indianapolis Eddie Merlot - private event.  Features Apaltagua Pinot Noir, Ziegler Pinot Noir, and Marimar Estates "LaMasia" Pinot Noir against six other pinot noirs - best tasting wines win!
• October 18th (Thursday): White and Red blends - wine tasting class at Payless Liquors (Adams Street) in Carmel, Indiana.
• October 19th (Friday): Fall tasting at Baesler's Market in Terra Haute from 6-8:30pm.
• October 20th (Saturday): Triangle Liquors annual charity wine tasting event in Valparaiso.

Please contact us if you want any more information on these events: sales AT graybullwine DOT com

Fall 2012 Graybull Wine consumer events

• September 4th (Tuesday), 5:30-6:30, special event with IndyReads and Mass Ave Wine Shoppe in downtown Indy.   Gary Carner (national sales manager for Hannah Nicole Vineyards) will be providing tastes of Hannah Nicole wines and also discussing his recently released book on famous Jazz musician Pepper Adams.
•  September 22nd (Saturday):   Sahara Mart East store 12-4pm in Bloomington AND Anderson Orchard 2-6pm in Pleasant View AND Tasteful Times 3-6pm  near Geist (busy day!).
• September 28th (Friday): Whole Foods Carmel 5-7pm
• October 18th (Thursday): White and Red blends - wine tasting class at Payless Liquors (Adams Street) in Carmel, Indiana.
• October 19th (Friday): Fall tasting at Baesler's Market in Terra Haute from 6-8:30pm.

May 2012 Graybull Wine consumer events

It's been a busy spring for Graybull Wines.   Our great sales team has been bringing new brands to accounts throughout Indiana with consistent success.   We continue to offer lots of opportunities for consumers to taste these new wines.  As always feel free to send us an email or reply if you would like to see us at a restaurant or wine store near you.   Here are a few upcoming events:

- Tasteful Times Grocery Store, Fishers, IN,  Saturday, May 12th, 3pm-6pm.  Spring tasting featuring La Fiera, Santa Barbara, St. Clair Winery, Tamarack Cellars and more.

- Kahn's Liquors Willow Lake, Thursday, May 17th,   6-8pm.  Diamond in the Rough.  Featuring a couple Graybull close-outs and lots of our supplier close-outs.  Great deals at typically 40-60% off retail.

- Chef JJ's EggFest, Saturday, May 19th, 11am-4pm.  One of our favorite festivals of the year - for $25 you can come and taste 60 different recipes all made on The Big Green Egg.  Sun King will be serving beer and Graybull will be serving wine.   We will feature La Fiera and a couple wines new to Indiana.

- Bloomingfoods Co-op, Bloomington, IN,  Saturday, May 19th, 4pm-8pm. A great opportunity to sample several eco-friendly wines that Bloomingfoods features at affordable prices.  Stellar Organics, La Maroutte, Badger Mountain, and many other great brands are commonly available.

- Harvest Market, Carmel, IN, Saturday June 9th, 5-8pm.   A shrimp boil with free wine tasting!  This is tucked away in the Village of West Clay, Carmel, Indiana.  All wines will be available for retail purchase in this great supporter of locally grown foods.


Here are events we supported since our last March update:
- Kahn's Liquors Willow Lake, Indianapolis, IN, March 16, 2012
- Big Red Liquors, Bloomington, IN, April 13, 2012
- Chef JJ Wine Dinner, Indianapolis, IN, April 20, 2012
- The Riveria Club Wine Dinner, Indianapolis, IN, April 21, 2012
- Mass Ave Wine Dinner, Indianapolis, IN, April 23, 2012
- Alabama Liquors, Indianapolis, IN, April 27, 2012