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recommend your favorite local winery.
DH and I love to go on wine tours and take mini road trips to visit good local wines. We are looking for some new wineries to visit this fall, recommend your favorite!
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Ahh, I'm such a WINO! Every year we take a girls trip to VA to see dave matthews band and we stop at this winery in VA that we love...piedmont vineyard. I know thats too far from PA. Locally, we like Naylor Wine. Although his stuff tends to be a little on the sweeter side than my normal dry wine love, its still good. *** Naylor is a personal friend of my boss's.
I'm happy to report my wine fridge is fully stocked for the winter months
we love naylor too! in fact, we just went to the Grape Harvest Fesitval there last weekend.
I prefer sweeter wines, but DH can drink anything. I'm not opposed to trying dry wines. I'm just not a big fan of the oak taste that usually accompanies dry wines.
have you tried Nissley winery off of Rt 441 in Lancaster Co? I've haven't personally been there, so I can't offer my opinion.
i've always wanted to try one of the festivites at naylors, but haven't done so. i'll have to check out his site for the next upcoming ones!
It's more out towards Reading or Allentown-ish so I don't know if that's too far, but Vynnecrest, Pinnacle Ridge, and Clover Hill are three that DH and I like to go to for a day out. Sometimes they have a "Day In the Vineyard" event where all 3 are involved and they have food and music at each place. It was a good time and it was $25 a person.
The Berks County wine trail is pretty fun. Some of the places are not bad but they're "meh", but over all it's a pretty good showing.
http://www.berkscountywinetrail.com/
nissley has our most favorite white wine- grapeful white. we served this and their grapeful red at our wedding. they have a huge wine list, something for everyone.
moondancer is beautiful! the mansion that the winery in is such a great ambience. they do small "concerts" on the patio in the summer which is always fun.
allegro has our favorite red wine- harmony. in fact, we bought a case at the allegro store last week.
thanks for the suggestions! we will have to check out the berks trail and pinnacle ridge, clover hill, and vynnecrest.
also- if your husbands ever like to go to cabellas and you dont want to go, there is a winery (long trout) about four miles from there. i always agree to go to cabellas if we can stop at that winery. they have a margarita wine and a chocolate covered strawberry wine that are amazing!
If you're looking for a weekend getaway you could do one of the wine trails up on the finger lakes in NY...
DH, me and my parents especially like Lakewood on Lake Seneca, but I've been told many of them are good!
DH and I like wine...this is reminding me that our wine fridge is getting pathetically low.
Local:
We like Nissley wines although we haven't been to the actual vineyard. We like the Fantasy, Rhapsody in Blue, and one of their whites that I can't recall the name right now. We also our fortunate enough to have a Blue Mountain Winery store in the Giant near our house. Their Reisling is really good and they have some really nice sweeter wines.
There's also a small winery in Hershey that has a tasting room...Cullari. I haven't been there but I've heard good things about them. I actually have a bottle of red wine from them (cab sauv i think!) that I keep forgetting about. Think we know what I'll be drinking this weekend!
Non-local:
We love Jackson-Triggs in Niagara On The Lake. It's our favorite especially anything from their Delaine vineyard. We went to NOTL during our HM and brought back various wines but the JT wines have been our favorite. We're hoping to go back their sometime in 2010.
I don't have much to add, but Re: Cullari
I'd recommend sticking with their whites. Their Cabernet Sauvignon was undrinkable - seriously, I dumped out the bottle
The white I had was pretty good though.
My favorite PA winery is Franklin Hill Vineyards in Bangor...may be a bit of drive for you though, I'm not sure how far you're willing to go. I LOVE their wines, especially reds, and their reds are the best. Sir Walter's Red, Fiesta, and Fainting Goat are not to be missed. We have not been to the actual winery yet, but they have a store in Bethlehem that we drive to to get our fix and we also stock up when we see them at wine festivals. I highly recommend!
http://franklinhillvineyards.com/
Galen Glen in Andreas is one we recently discovered at a wine festival and really enjoyed a lot of their wines Again, may be out of your way, but worth a mention. Winter Mountain White, Winter Mountain Red and Galah are our favorites from here.
http://www.galenglen.com/index.html
Shade Mountain Vineyards has nice wines
http://www.shademountainwinery.com/index.html
Benigna's Creek http://www.bcwinery.com/
Long Trout Winery, that a pp mentioned, is a fun place to visit but I'm not a big fan of their wines - which is a huge bummer because it's so close to where I live.
http://www.longtroutwinery.com/index.html
Have fun!
Have you checked out the PA wine trail website?
http://www.pennsylvaniawine.com/
They even divide it out into area trails.
Mt Hope...yes, where the Ren Faire is has a TON of wines... a lot are sweet. That's in manheim.
Lancaster County Winery has a mixture mostly dry to semi
Nissley, as many have said are mostly sweet.
Naylor, I think are also mostly sweet as well.
Twin Brook has some tastey ones in dry and sweet. There is a red that that last time we were there, people were coming from out of state to stock up aka buy a case of it (Strasburger)
There is a new on in...Manheim I think it is as well as the one a pp mentioned in Gettysburg.
There is also one off of Fruitville Pk that is all dry i believe..sorry can't remember that name either.
Moondancer in Wrightsville is dry as well. They often do little special events as well.
The above one are pretty much doable in one day...albeit, probably not a smart idea