{"id":27486,"date":"2019-07-02T12:28:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T17:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=27486"},"modified":"2019-07-02T12:28:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T17:28:40","slug":"meet-the-twisted-vintner-apsus-award-winning-winemaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/07\/02\/meet-the-twisted-vintner-apsus-award-winning-winemaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Twisted Vintner, APSU\u2019s award-winning winemaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – When she first started work as an instructor in the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Culinary Arts program, Chef Kelley Price, a former U.S Marine Corps Military Police Officer, thought she might be a bit twisted. Not in a bad way. She\u2019s just easily bored and likes to mix things up a bit.<\/p>\n

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Austin Peay State University Culinary Arts program instructor Chef Kelley Price. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cI taught the bar service and bar management class, and one year, I said, \u2018Why can\u2019t we do more with the program?\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cSo we incorporated making beer and wine. That class now fills up first every time.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the class first started, Price didn\u2019t know how to make the beverages. But a friend donated a couple of kits, and after doing her own research, and a little trial and error, she figured it out. Once she was able to teach her class the basics, her mind began wanting to twist things around again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went in and started experimenting, making my own flavors,\u201d Price said.<\/p>\n

Why not add green apple flavoring to Riesling or develop a basil lemonade wine? If those sound strange, you should try her blueberry white merlot or melon berry pineapple cucumber wine. Price bottled her creations under the label Twisted Wines and submitted them to the Tennessee Viticultural Oenological Society\u2019s annual winemaking competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI entered one bottle, and I won silver,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s when I said, \u2018This is pretty cool,\u2019 so the following year I entered six bottles and won five \u2013 three golds, a silver and a bronze.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Price has 500 bottles of wine aging at her farm in North Clarksville, and sometime in the near future, once renovations are complete, she plans to open Twisted Winery on the property.<\/p>\n

Discovering a passion<\/h3>\n

Even during her days as a Marine MP, Price enjoyed cooking. When she left the military, she often catered events for her husband. The couple eventually found their way to Fort Campbell, and when her husband left on his sixth deployment, she began looking for something to occupy her time.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur children were in their teens at the time,\u201d Price said. \u201cI said to my husband, \u2018I love to cook.\u2019 He said, \u2018Why don\u2019t you go to school?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

[320left]She did just that, enrolling at Austin Peay State University. The University\u2019s Fort Campbell Center offers an undergraduate certificate in Accelerated Culinary Arts and an Associate of Applied Science degree with a concentration in culinary arts. Price, working in the center\u2019s large training kitchen, excelled at the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe instructor said, \u2018When you graduate, how would you like to teach?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Price finished the program early, and in the last five years, she\u2019s worked for Austin Peay,  helping to train budding chefs. Recently, she served an interim coordinator of the program.<\/p>\n

The Brew Crew<\/h3>\n

Price prefers making wine, but at Austin Peay, her beer-making class also remains one of her more popular offerings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students, they\u2019re the Brew Crew \u2013 the APSU Brew Crew,\u201d she said. \u201cWe change the beers we make every semester. In the summer, we do something similar to a cerveza, and in the winter, we do wheaty beers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Students get to take home some of what they make, while their best drinks are used at a few formal Austin Peay State University functions.<\/p>\n

For information on the program, contact price at pricek@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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