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Spring is here! And Terrapin Station Winery has been abuzz with activity. We know turtles don't necessarily exude excitement and enthusiasm, but we have a lot of new things to tell you about!
Our Tasting Room officially opens for the season this Saturday, March 24. We will be open from 12-6 pm on Saturdays and Sundays through the summer. Beginning June 14, we expand to open Thursdays and Fridays as well. Read more below about what's new in the Tasting Room and our new wines. Both our bottled and box wines, including our popular Better Red than Dead, are available for tasting.
Also, at the Winery, the Elkton Eclipse Vintage Base Ball Club returns to play their home games in our fields. Opening Day is Sunday, April 25 at 12:00 p.m. Bring a chair, a picnic lunch, and plan to have some wine while you sit back and watch.
We have planned several big events throughout the summer at the Winery. On June 16-17, we'll have an Art and Chocolate event featuring The Artsy Girls' Guild and chocolates by the Perfect Truffle. July 14 will see the Pyrates Royale, Salty Dog, and other entertainment for our Pirate Weekend. (More details to come soon) And September 22, we will have a Harvest Festival. We're also planning a big event for Halloween weekend at the winery. We're also participating in several wine festivals in Maryland. And yep, we'll probably need volunteers for a few.
To keep track and to dig a little deeper, we've launched a new Blog on our website - Drink Wine, Think Turtle. We'll be launching a new series, Terrapin Tips for Winetasting - to provide some insights for visiting tasting rooms and for tasting wines at festivals.
Keep reading to find out more. We look forward to seeing you in person or in cyberspace soon.
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Welcome to our Tasting Room!
 Our Tasting Room opens "officially" for the season this weekend. We will be open Saturday, March 24 and Sunday, March 25 from 12-6 pm. We will be open weekends through the fall, adding Thursdays & Fridays beginning June 14.
Come by to try our new wines - we introduced several specialty wines in bottles this year, including our: - Tartaruga Bianco - a complex, semi-dry white blend
- Traminette Reserve - our award-winning Traminette in a special blend
- Sangiovese - our first ever bottling of this European style classic
- Shiraz - a crisp, semi-spicy red wine
We also have our classic boxed wines, including Cecil Red, Cecil White, and our popular port-style Better Red than Dead. For $5, you can sample any five of our wines. |
Elkton Eclipse Base Ball
Vintage Style Baseball at the Winery
 Opening Day is this weekend! Cecil County's own vintage base ball club, the Elkton Eclipse, open their season on Sunday, March 25 at Noon at the Winery. Bring a lawn chair and a picnic lunch and come out to the winery for a day of family fun. The Eclipse play vintage style base ball (yep! it used to be two words) - no baseball gloves and with an old-tyme gentleman's umpire. From April thru October, they play their home games at Terrapin Station Winery. Check out the Full Schedule so that you can join us one afternoon to see what base ball was like in the 19th Century; when the game was played by hard-nosed gentlemen and admission was only 15 cents. Learn more about the Eclipse and watch a video of last year's Opening Day on our Blog. |
Art and Chocolate
At the Winery - June 16-17
What more could you ask for? Art and Chocolate on a summer day at the Winery. Join us Saturday, June 16 and Sunday, June 17 from 12-6 pm for this special event. The Art Show will feature The Artsy Girls Guild - A dozen artists who  have all types of media to exhibit: oil paintings, watercolors, ceramics, gourds, felted animals, mixed media collage , jewelry. Visit their Facebook page to see some of their work. Chocolates by The Perfect Truffle of Frederick, MD. Samples and sales inside the tasting room. Food will be available for purchase from Beer Buddies Chili and BBQOn Saturday, you can watch Vintage Style base ball as the Elkton Eclipse battle Diamond State BBC of Delaware. Base ball starts at 1 pm and matches last all afternoon. On Sunday, June 17th from 12-6 pm, the Art Show continues with live music by California Bob from 2-4 pm. Wine tastings are $5 in the Tasting Room and wine will be available for sale. There is no fee for admission Picnics encouraged Chairs or blankets recommended for base ball game No outside alcohol permitted |
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Free State's Finest
MD Life magazine awards TSW
Maryland Life Magazine has announced its 2012 Free State's Finest winners: Terrapin Station Winery was named Maryland's best winery in the Eastern Shore region. The magazine's annual poll surveys readers; we are proud to be voted one of Maryland's best wines. Thank you to all our fans and friends who voted for us and helped make this happen!
Congratulations also to our home team - the Elkton Eclipse Baseball Club - one of the Editor's Picks for Best-Kept Secrets. Other notable winners in the Free State's Finest poll include Maryland Wine Festival, Maryland Renaissance Festival, Cecil County Fair, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (finest sunrise/sunset), and Kilby Ice Cream. Visit the Maryland Life magazine website for the complete list of winners.
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Drink Wine, Think Turtle
New TSW Blog
You're invited to check out our new Blog: Drink Wine, Think Turtle! Why a Blog? you ask. We have a website, we have a Facebook, why start a Blog? We look at it like this - our website covers the basics pretty well. It provides information about our wines, our location, events, the vineyards. We do our best to keep it timely and up to date. Our Facebook is a bit more casual and random. Our newsletter is a summary of upcoming events and interesting items from the vineyard. Our Blog is an extension of these. It gives us (and you, the reader) a chance to explore - go a bit deeper or approach in a new way - some topics near and dear to our hearts. We might blog about approaches to wine tasting, we might post a photo or video journal of activities in the vineyard - harvest or pruning or planting, we may post recipes if we're inspired. We'll go behind the scenes at festivals and wine events as well as our winemaking... Read more at our Blog/Website and let us know if you have ideas or suggestions for topics you'd like to know more about.
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Upcoming Festivals
Decanter, Wine in the Woods, & more
April 21-22 12 - 6 PM
Pimlico Race Track | Baltimore, MD
- de*cant [verb]: to aerate a fine wine by pouring into an ornate glass vessel;
- can*ter [noun]: a controlled gait between a trot and a gallop;
- de*cant*er [noun]: an event at Pimlico Race Course combining the traditions of Maryland wine and Maryland horse racing.
Terrapin Station Winery will be pouring wines for sampling at the 2nd annual Decanter Festival - at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, home of the Preakness Stakes. Enjoy a unique infield vantage point to the races while tasting wines from Maryland wineries.
Tickets are $30 for General Admission / $50 for an upgraded Decanter Pass. For more information, visit the Maryland Wineries Association. Advanced tickets available via www.eventbrite.com
Wine in the Woods
May 19-20, 2012 12-6 PM
Symphony Woods | Columbia, MD
Join us as one of Maryland's oldest and biggest Wine Festivals celebrates 20 years.
Sample wines from Maryland wineries, enjoy food from local restaurants and caterers and entertainment on the Main and Vignette stages. The festival is rounded out with craftsmen and artisans for shopping. For more information and directions, visit the Wine in the Woods website.
We will be asking for volunteers to help pour wine in our tent. Volunteers get into the festival for free, including a souvenir tasting glass, and are free to enjoy the festival before/after their shift. The earlier you sign up, you get your choice of shifts. Sign up now!
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TSW Links
Cool & important stuff
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Spring brings a flurry of activity and anticipation to the Winery. We're excited to open the Tasting Room and are planning some fun events there throughout the summer. We are also looking forward to the Wine festivals and hope to share at least some of them with you.
We appreciate all of your support. It's our fans and friends who make the hard work worthwhile and remind us how to keep the FUN in Terrapin Station Winery. Keep it up!
  Morris & Janet Zwick |
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