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Tasting Room will be open during Nationals
 
August is a special month here around Knoxville, IA. Visitors from all over the world converge in our town of 7,000 for 4 days of sprint car racing excitement. This year’s Sprint Car Nationals will be held August 8-11. Many of the racing fans that stop by the Tasting Room in downtown aren’t aware that Iowa has a wine industry, much less a winery right here in Knoxville. The Tasting Room will be open during Nationals with specials on wine, free live music, and more. We won’t have our usual First Friday Live, instead we'll host 2 bands from Des Moines: TCBAS and Dynasty will perform on both Friday and Saturday 3:00 – 6:00pm to accommodate the racing schedule.
 
Special invitation for our email subscribers
 
The Tasting Room downtown will close on August 12, 2018 as we begin our move. We are awaiting formal government acceptance and anticipate that will happen by middle of August. In the meantime work continues on creating an inviting indoor space for guests as well as a functional work area for wine processing. Once these tasks are complete (or nearly so) we will invite you to a special opening at the winery. This will be an invite only to you and other supporters on our mailing list and won’t be open to the public. We will issue a special invite via email. It will be a daytime, weekend event in September, details on that to come with your invite. We encourage you to bring friends or let people know they can sign up for our mailing list at our website, www.nearwoodwinery.com to receive the invite as well as our monthly e-news.