Wildside Winery
and Vineyard

Wildside Winery : your nearby Lexington Kentucky Winery
 

Now following our Winter Hours of operation:  January 1st  to March 20th (first day of spring) -

  • Closed Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays except by appointment (call Neil's cell at 859-321-5046) and well arrange a wine tasting anytime).
  • Open Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays  1-6 PM and Sundays 1-5 PM.

Bring yourself, and family or guests out for a wine tasting!  We have 22 kinds of wine and cheese and cracker to enjoy with the wines.

Cranberry, Cherry and a very Dry Kentucky Cabernet Franc are just released for your Thanksgiving weekend enjoyment.


Recent Headline News:

Cranberry, Cherry and a very Dry Kentucky Cabernet Franc are just released for your enjoyment.

Recent Headline News:

  • We are done with harvest this year. Yeah! We had a great harvest, especially our Norton did very well with high quality and decent yield. 
  • We just leased a 6 acre vineyard three miles away and Neil will be now managing 11 acres of grapes in total.  This vineyard is two acres of Cabernet Franc and two acres of Reisling, and two acres of Vidal Blanc.  We will be working this winter to recover the vines from a year of neglect and we plan on bringing them back to make super high quality wines that will be released in 2013.
  • In addition we will be planting more Chambourcin and Vidal Blanc grapes this spring (can't I find enough to do?).
  • Wine club members:  Our winter release will be here with new wines the end of January. 
  • We just picked up 8 barrels from Woodford Reserve Distillery to start our 2011 BBR red wine.

   We won a Silver medal for our Cabernet Franc at the Indy International wine competition,and three Silver medals for the different categories below at the Kentucky State Fair Commercial Wine Contest!

Dry red blend we got a silver medal for our "Duet"
Sweet red varietal we got silver for Chambourcin "Dangerous"
Rose' or blush blend we got a silver medal for "Wild Rose"

Check out our new On-line store, just click at the left panel.


We are now serving quality beers by the drink.

Welcome to Wildside Winery your winery near Lexington Kentucky, the airport, and Keeneland racetrack!

Come join us for a glass of fine wine.  Let us prove to you that Kentucky can compete in wine quality.  Located just south of historic Versailles, Kentucky and just minutes from Lexington, Kentucky our comfortable and charming space is the perfect to relax with others to or just escape to enjoy a glass of your favorite wine.

Wildside Winery has a great selection of wine styles.  We have 9 dry red wines from medium mellow to big and dry.
We have dry white wines including Chardonnay and Seyval Blanc and occasionally a dry. sparkling, hard pear-apple cider.  

Wildside Winery is also known exceptional berry wines such as blackberry, strawberry and blueberry all made from 100% fresh Kentucky fruit.  Our style is to have serious, undiluted, pure fruit wines, so you'll find that they have more flavor, color and body than others.  We don't just add juice or flavoring to a cheap grape wine, we make it from only that fruit. 

We also have a semi-sweet wine called "Sonata".  It is our Riesling style wine - very fruity, smooth and a little sweet.  We have two sweeter wines the fruity Niagara and the smooth and sweet Wild Rose, which is our rose' and is called for when a customer is looking for a white zinfandel or white Merlot.  

Neil Vasilakes is the wine maker at Wildside Winery and he loves making new and interesting kinds of wine.  These unusual wines are often tricky to make and  time consuming.  They are often made in small quantities and are usually from fresh local fruit.   A short list of the interesting wines are our Bourbon barrel red wine made with Cabernet,  our peach mead, fresh strawberry, hard cider, black walnut wine aged in Maker's Mark barrels and we are working on a blueberry in a Makers barrel too.  Another special wine is our Port wine.  It's aged in Woodford Reserve Bourbon barrels.  And last but not least, we finally made a sweet red wine that we call Dangerous.

Wildside Winery is very close to Keenland race track in Lexington, Kentucky.  It is convenient to stop in to the winery after Keenland for a wine tasting.
 

Neil, Rachel, Jim, Karen, Sonya, Rafael and Kati are here to make your visit an enjoyable and memorable one.  We look forward to providing a wide range of exciting wines for you to explore in a comfortable, friendly environment.   Lets talk about wine, winemaking, vine growing and your preferences in wine.

Come taste both serious and fun wines at Wildside Winery

Wildside Winery
5500 Troy Pike
Versailles, Kentucky 40383
rachel@wildsidewinery.com 
Winery phone: 859-879-3982   (leave message if not during open hours - we'll get back to you)

It's time for our winter hours so we are now open on:
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 1-6 pm and Sundays 1-5 pm  stop out for a wine tasting!  (Or call Neil's cell 859-321-5046 for a wine tasting anytime by appointment)

Its Here!  Check out our newest wines: Cranberry, Cherry, and another Cab Franc with all KY grapes. 

Wine Club Members: Winter wine club pick up will be in late January. 

 Cheese and crackers also available.

Our goal is to make you a wine that you'll consider a special treat.
Specials each day check out the white board at the winery for what's on sale!

Rent our winery!  Have your party, get together, meeting, reunion, book club, game night for less than commonly charged for just a wine tasting.  Check out the Weddings and Receptions page for a great venue at a price below the other guys.
Wine baskets for sale.  Come check them out or call or write for special order baskets.

Ever wonder what we do with all of our partially open wines that we use in the tasting room when they get a little old?  We take them to our vinegar production area and make gourmet vinegars!  The flavors of these vinegars will knock your socks off.  They are available for tasting and purchase at the winery.
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