Winemaker Norm Jennings is putting out a call for your help!      Join Norm at the Vintage Room Tasting Bar at the Vineyards     and Winery in Salina on Saturday, March 29 from 7-9.  Guests will sample a selection of several aging ports, do a little blending to help determine which reserve barrels will be combined for the next edition of Smoky Hill's Founder's Reserve Port!

You will enjoy an array of chocolates and desserts, but the focus of the evening    will be YOU...and your introduction to the art of blending wines to create the    perfect combination to create the perfect port!  Do YOU possess the talent to     help create the perfect port?  We think so! MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS HERE. The cost is $25.

                                    And that's not all!

This is also the night the final release of Founder's Legacy: Barrel Eight-One-Five may be available. Only thirty bottles are available, and the call has gone out to FOUNDER'S CIRCLE HONORS CLUB members for the opportunity to purchase the glorious Eight-One-Five Founder's Legacy Port.  If Barrel 8-1-5 is new to you, you may read about it here. Since we anticipate the number of requests will exceed the number of bottles available, Honors Club members that provided email addresses, and joined prior to March 1, have received the first email notice. Subsequent email requests to this address only will be given chronological preference.  You will be notified by return email that the wine must be picked up and/or paid for by March 24.  In the unlikely event that there are bottles of Barrel 8-1-5 remaining after March 24, the remaining requests will be entered into a drawing, with the winners drawn at the March 29th event. WE ARE STRICTLY LIMITING THE PURCHASE TO ONE PER CUSTOMER.  Barrel Eight-One-Five, Founder's Legacy Port is available for the first release price of $72.95/bottle.

           So I thought you sold out of 8-1-5 two years ago?

We did.  Fewer than 350 bottles were available, and within weeks, it sold out.  As you recall, the wine was bottled unfiltered, by hand.  Remaining in the bottom of Barrel Eight-One-Five was the "lees". After resting, or aging, for an additional two years, the thirty bottles being offered now is what was left after racking the remaining wine from the lees.  Read more about lees by clicking here.