Winery Trail

August 27 – We leave 1 week from today and there are still places we want to go and things we want to do.  Cleaning bathhouses is not one of them but we did our duty.  The campground is pretty empty but will be full again on Friday for the holiday weekend. 

 

Once the raking was done we decided to go on some of the wine trail on the east side of the mountains.  We went up and over the same route we went Saturday night with everyone.  We stopped at 3 wineries and a hard cider place.  The Wintergreen Winery was nice and I was the only one tasting so she didn’t charge.  I left with one bottle.  They were out of several and will be bottling later in the week.  Next was the Bold Rock cider tasting room.  There is no fee for the tasting and I did all 4.  Two were a champagne style and 2 were more like beer.  I went with the first 2 and got a 6 pack of 3 each.  These will be for special occasions (or when I run out of wine).  Then we moseyed up the hill to Hill Top Berry Farm and Brewery.  Their products were fruit wines and meads.  I’d never tasted mead and ended up bringing back a bottle of pumpkin mead.  The wines were OK but I promised myself I’d limit to one bottle per place.  Our last stop, bear in mind Bill stays in the truck waiting, was Cardinal Point Winery.  This was the only place where I was not the only taster.  It was also the only place that did only dry wines.  I normally ask but since the wine list was so long I figured I could just skip to the good stuff.  Nah!  I did buy one as a gift but its way too dry for me.

 

There were more wineries along the road but it was getting late and I wanted to stop at the peach orchard (which was over priced and the peaches were hard as rocks) and this little “country store”.  Bill went in with me and it was full of antiques, jewelry, knick knacks and paddy whacks.  We most enjoyed the candy room where we reminisced on the ones we had as kids that you don’t normally see anymore.

 

Once we got this far we were close to Waynesboro so we drove on it and made a stop at Sharp Shopper.  Muenster was the cheese of the week so I got a whole log to take home.  We didn’t buy much else.  I had Bill stop at the Dollar Tree and was very excited to find in their seasonal section a huge supply of items I could use for our campout in September.  We’re doing a Hawaiian Luau theme so I got leis, fancy straws, wall decorations and table decorations.  Now all we need are the table cloths, plates and napkins. 

 

We made the last stop at Kroger then headed for home.  It was closing in on dark so we hurried and ate our leftovers and went out to rake the site that left early and walk the loop.  We met a really nice couple who are interested in coming to Florida for 2 months this winter.  I told them about our apartment and that I thought it was open for the month of January.  I told them I’d bring my card of with my info and the airbnb web address.

 

I stayed visiting so long that Bill left and our show was half over when I got in.  We watched our shows for the rest of the evening.