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Beyond the Vine Wine Tours

• Chauffeur, wine tours, tour guide
• I have worked with the wineries and breweries to learn their products, services and history to give you full day of wine/beer tasting experience.

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Beyond the Vine Wine Tours

• Chauffeur, wine tours, tour guide
• I have worked with the wineries and breweries to learn their products, services and history to give you full day of wine/beer tasting experience.

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Beyond the Vine Wine Tours

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• Lafayette IN 47909
• (765) 414-1786
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I will accept calls from 8am-9pm See our website for trail times (approximately 11am-7pm)

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Our pick up point is 200 Progress drive, Holiday Inn near I65 on St Rd 26 in Lafayette. When you rent the shuttle for a private party, we will pick you up at a location of your choice.

Beyond the Vine is a Lafayette based, family owned & operated, chauffeured wine trail. We specialize in taking you on an organized pre-planned wine tasting experience! Plan a party or day date with us

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Beyond the vine wine tours is a full day chauffeured wine trail. enjoy the day, the wine, & the trail while they do the planning and driving. each tour includes four stops..

• 8 wineries – Whyte Horse Winery, Fruitshine Winery, Carpenter Creek Cellars, Indian Trails Winery, Hooker Corner Winery, The People’s Winery, McClure’s Winery, and Schnabeltier. Also on the trail are two breweries, The People’s Brewing Company and Crasian Brewing Company
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• Tour departs from and returns to Lafayette, IN

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Beyond the Vine Wine Tour – Touring Lafayette Wineries One Sip at a Time

Sip and enjoy wine during a Beyond the Vine Wine Tour , a full day Chauffeured Wine Trail operated out of Lafayette, Indiana. Reservations can be made for as little as two guests or you can reserve the entire luxury shuttle (up to 14 friends) for your party or event! Enjoy the day, the wine, & the trail while Beyond the Vine Wine Tour does the planning and navigating! Purdue University Student, Haley Compston, shares her experience touring with Beyond the Vine.

As a student at Purdue, I am always searching for something new and fun to do in the Lafayette-West Lafayette area. With my parents coming to visit one weekend, I was looking for something that would be fun for me as well as for them. Beyond the Vine Wine Tours turned out to be a perfect solution.

We boarded the Beyond the Vine bus on a rainy Sunday morning and began our tour of local wineries. The day started off with a fun ride to our first winery. Jill Smit, the woman behind the Beyond the Vine operation and the driver of the bus, gave us tons of interesting information about the wineries we would be visiting. She was incredibly knowledgeable about the wine they would be serving, as well as the wineries themselves. As we approached our first stop, Fruitshine Winery, she told us about the unique wine they served which is made from all kinds of fruits that are grown on the premises.

Fruitshine Winery

At Fruitshine, we tasted wine made from bananas, pears, apples, blueberries, and more. There were so many special kinds of wine, and as we tasted and compared, we were offered mixtures of the different wines based on what we liked. With so many options, there were wines that appealed to everyone at Fruitshine, and the atmosphere was homey as we sipped our wine in a rustic screened-in porch, reminiscent of Grandma’s house.

Whyte Horse Winery

The next stop on our tour was Whyte Horse Winery. Both the employees and the guests greeted us as we walked in, making us feel like regulars among the crowd. The wine we tasted here was more typical to what might be served at a restaurant or offered at a store. However, the woman guiding our tasting, Amanda, was knowledgeable about each wine and gave us backstories on why they chose to make each wine the way they did. They made traditional types of wine using unique processes that gave them a fresh edge. There were also additional tastes after the original six we chose so that we could try their seasonal offerings. This included a spiced apple wine and a cotton candy wine slushie. The offerings at Whyte Horse were balanced between traditional, classic wines, and incredibly unique flavors.

Carpenter Creek Cellars

The final stop on our tour was Carpenter Creek Cellars. As we walked into the barn, we were greeted by a member of the staff and the owner of the winery. The owner guided our tasting, telling us about each kind of wine we were trying, as well as sharing stories and information about the history of the winery itself. The family history of the winery was evident in the décor, with vintage photos of the family that owns the winery lining the walls, as well as aged trinkets and memorabilia. Each wine at Carpenter Creek was a classic kind of wine, but they were classic wines done well. We enjoyed tasting and chatting, and we were even greeted by some furry friends during our visit.

The Beyond the Vine Wine Tours experience was incredibly enjoyable, and definitely something we would do again. We booked the trip the week before and spent $91 per person for an afternoon filled with great wine, and even better company.

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'Beyond the Vine' offers a look at north central Indiana wineries

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — One thing tourists may not think of when planning a trip to Indiana is its vast amount of local wineries, but Jill Smit is offering a better approach to visiting them.

Smit, owner of Beyond the Vine Wine Tours, said the idea behind the winery seeing tour came from her and her husband's frequent visits to Carpenter Creek Cellars in Remington.

"My husband and I like to go wine tasting, and Remington is roughly a 40-minute drive from here," Smit said. "And they let you taste all of the wines there, so if you were to try all of them and then drive back to Lafayette, that isn't exactly safe."

Smit said she knew if she wanted some form of transportation between wineries, then perhaps others were looking for something like this as well.

When she started her business over a year and a half ago, Smit said she thought majority of her customers would be consisting of bachelorette parties, but in that time frame of operation she has only had two groups of the like.

"It is mostly milestone birthdays, retirement parties," she said. "The crowd I have been getting is much different than I thought."

But Smit said she is happy with all of her clients who have come aboard her 14-seater bus, as she never looked to present herself as sort of a "party bus," as her business was also given the title of "Best Place for oa Date" by Macaroni Kid.

The tours, which commonly consist of four different winery visits in a session, go to wineries in Monticello, Logansport, Pine Village and Peru. Certain tours also make stops at two breweries on Smit's list: People's Brewing Company and Craisin Brewing Company in Brookston.

The bus features Wi-Fi and USB ports in every seat, as well as a cooler in the back for purchased wines that require being kept chilled. Smit offers small meals and non-alcoholic beverages to be purchased on the bus as well, even stocking the bus with corkscrews and cups for wine.

What still baffles Smit, however, is where the clientele is coming from: outside the state of Indiana.

"I think I have only had one full trip of Lafayette people," she said. "I get people from Chicago, Ohio, Michigan and even New York. So it's something I think is more of a destination type of excursion, but I don't know why it isn't attractive to Lafayette people."

Rates for the bus vary from single seat purchase to the entire bus as a group. For more information, go to beyondthevineindiana.com.

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