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Maryland Winery Events and Wine Trails

November 16, 2012 – 10:03 am

A Prolific Maryland Vineyard

Maryland now boasts more than 50 wineries. Most of the wineries are open to the public. All of the wineries participate in Maryland Wine website at http://www.marylandwine.com. Many Maryland wineries can belong to one of the five Maryland wine trails.

A sixth wine trail is most unusual as it is shared between by 23 wineries in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The Mason Dixon Wine Trail is long and deserves to be visited for several days. According to one person we spoke with, it may be the only wine trail in the US that is shared between two states. This is cooperation between states at its best.

The other Maryland wine trails include the Carroll Wine Trail with five wineries. Twelve Maryland wineries belong to the Chesapeake Wine Trail. The Frederick Wine Trail has seven wineries and he Patuxent Wine Trail includes seven wineries in Southern Maryland. The wineries on the Piedmont Trail are located in Harford County and Baltimore County. Nine wineries are part of this wine trail.

Numerous wine events are coming up for the holidays at some of the individual wineries in Maryland.

Check these wineries websites for specific information about these holiday events.

Berrywine Plantations | Linganore Winecellars
Holiday Desserts
ends November 30

Dove Valley Winery
Sip n Shop
November 16

Port of Leonardtown Winery
Mulled Sundays
November 18, 25

Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard
Black Friday Sale
November 23 -25

Harford Vineyard
Go Local for the Holidays Event
Nov 24 & 25 Dec 1,2, 8,9,15,16,22&23

Boordy Vineyards
Wine Country Christmas
December 1, 8, 22

Dove Valley Winery
Holiday Barrel Tasting & Christmas Bazaar
December 1, 2

Berrywine Plantations | Linganore Winecellars
Holiday Desserts II
December 1 – December 31

Elk Run Vineyards and Winery
Dickens Open House
December 1, 2

Layton’s Chance Vineyard and Winery
Christmas Market
December 2

Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard
Photos with Santa Paws
December 8

Snowflake Festival
Detour Vineyard and Winery
December 15

Cheers! Kathy

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Distillery Lane Ciderworks Produces Hard Cider and Fresh Cider

November 15, 2012 – 1:05 pm

 

Distillery Lane Ciderworks, MD

Distillery Lane Ciderworks is located in the bucolic countryside of Maryland. The facility has acres of apples and produces hard cider and fresh cider. It is located in a small building amid farm buildings with acres of apple orchards. The property currently has 3,000 apple trees that include 45 different varieties including numerous cider apples. The DLC website provides detailed information about the apple varieties.

Earlier this week we enjoyed a Hard Cider from DLC. With eight percent alcohol, the cider’s aroma and taste was thoroughly like fresh apples.  The unfiltered cider was a light gold color. It reminded us of old world apples.

Distillery Lane Ciderworks is a unique facility. In addition to producing fresh ciders and hard ciders, they also offer classes during the off-season. One of our family members took one of the classes and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The fee includes the three-hour class, tastings and the materials to make a case of hard cider at home.

When traveling near Frederick, Maryland take time to travel to visit Distillery Lane Ciderworks.  Check ahead for hours.

Cheers! Kathy

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Tipping Point for “A Wine Journey”

November 14, 2012 – 10:15 am

A Wine JourneyKathy and I have been writing articles for the Wine Trail Traveler website for six years. During the first five years we toyed with the concept of writing a book. Terry began manuscripts for a couple books. One book was about our winemaking experience while the other was a book reminiscent of Ideals Magazine including photos, poetry and short stories.  We didn’t carry through on either of these ideas lacking the motivational spark that would ignite writing.

That spark came in February 2012 at the International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association conference. At the conference we met Sherrie Wilkolaski on a dine around. Later, Kathy attended Sherrie’s presentation. After three days, Sherrie had a good idea of who we were and approached us with a comment, “You should write a book about what you have done.” This sole statement proved to be our tipping point.

Within a week we had an outline and a teaser for one of the chapters. The outline kept evolving as did the book. Early on we figured out that writing and publishing a book was another endeavor that we wouldn’t know what we were doing until after we did it. For example, our outline turned into five outlines and now additional books are planned. Sherrie provided us feedback and encouragement. Our first book outline evolved into three areas of experiences: learning about wine, winemaking and wine travel.

Terry was able to incorporate his previous writing from an earlier book idea. We were also able to use a couple articles that we previously wrote but didn’t use on our website or blog. Even with the previous works, we needed to write an additional 35,000 words or so. If it wasn’t for a talent spotter, we may have never followed through with writing a book.

Visit A Wine Journey book’s website.

Cheers
Terry

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Thanksgiving Farm Winery: A Poster Child for the Drink Local Wine Community

November 14, 2012 – 12:07 am

 

Thanksgiving Farm Wines Tasting Room, Maryland

Thanksgiving Farm winery could be the poster child for the Drink Local Wine community. This petite size winery only uses its own vineyard grapes for producing its own wines.

What could be better than to have a bottle of wine gracing your Thanksgiving Day table with a label “Thanksgiving Farm?” Maryland residents are lucky to have a winery named Thanksgiving Farm. The winery is located in Harwood in Anne Arundel County and not far from the District of Columbia.

Visitors to the winery will discover a warm welcome, elegant tasting room and a sparkling white winery. This boutique winery is small but has a small elegant tasting room. Relatively new on the scene Thanksgiving Farm winery is only open on Sundays from 1pm – 5pm.

The owners are producing serious wines. Current wines include Meritage, Farmhouse Red, Dry Rose and a Franc Blanc. All wines are produced from the onsite vineyard.

This Sunday stop by to purchase to taste the Thanksgiving Farm wines and decide what you would like to serve for Thanksgiving.

We were fortunate to be able to purchase about four gallons of Cabernet Sauvignon juice that had not set on the skins. At the moment the juice is quietly fermenting and we plan to bottle it before the Drink Local Conference in 2013.

White wines made from Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc are unusual and unique. When you are out and traveling about look for these special wines.

Cheers!
Kathy

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Ameritage from Virginia for Drink Local Wine Week

November 13, 2012 – 9:55 am

Oak Wine Barrel at Pearmund Cellars

To begin Drink Local Wine Week, last night we enjoyed a Bordeaux-like wine produced by Pearmund Cellars in Broad Run, Virginia. The wine, Ameritage 2007 has aged well and offered a full body with dark fruit notes. The wine was produced with five grape varietals including Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Petite Verdot, Malbec and Merlot.

Pearmund Cellars in Northern Virginia is not far from the nation’s capital. Wine enthusiasts from the District of Columbia and Virginia have easy access to a wonderful winery. Visit the winery and enjoy the ambiance of the lovely patio with views of the vineyards.

If you are fortunate you may meet Chris Pearmund, a wine connoisseur and supporter of the local wine industry.

Pearmund Cellars is the sister winery of Vint Hill Craft Winery where wine enthusiasts can produce their own barrel of wine with professional equipment and a winemaker. Both wineries are mentioned in our just released book, A Wine Journey.

Cheers, Kathy

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Pressing Our Cabernet Sauvignon at Tin Lizzie Wineworks

November 12, 2012 – 6:44 pm

Pressing Cabernet Sauvignon

Yesterday we pressed our Cabernet Sauvignon grapes and now the wine is quietly resting in a French oak barrel. Terry wrote a blog about the experience and posted some photos. Check out the winemaking blog at

Pressing and Racking to Barrel

Cheers!

Kathy

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A Wine Journey is Available Now

November 10, 2012 – 7:45 am

A Wine Journey

We are pleased to announce that our first book, A Wine Journey, has been published and is available on the Infinity Publishing website. We are excited and hope you enjoy reading about our journey through the wine world and discover how you can be involved in this fascinating topic whether it is by learning about wine, making wine or traveling to wineries.

For your holiday gift giving, A Wine Journey is available online at
http://www.buybooksontheweb.com/Search.aspx?kw=A%20Wine%20Journey&typ=Title.

Cheers!
Kathy and Terry

Terry recently added a book trailer to the website. Check out the trailer on You Tube at:

 

 

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If You Are in One of 12 Lucky States, Will You Buy Wine Through Amazon?

November 9, 2012 – 8:02 am

Anyone who uses Amazon knows that they sell a whole lot more than books. Whether you need household items, lawn and garden equipment or toys, Amazon seems to have it all. About the only thing they could not sell was wine. Previously they were stopped by the myriad of different regulations around the country.

Finally, Amazon has succeeded in bringing wine to people. Unfortunately there are many restrictions including only residents of a limited number of states can have wine shipped to them. Currently residents in 12 states and the District of Columbia can receive wine through Amazon. Available wines are from California, Oregon and Washington.

The list includes

  • California
  • Connecticut
  • District of Columbia
  • Florida
  • Iowa
  • Idaho
  • Illinois
  • North Carolina
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • Oregon
  • Washington
  • Wyoming

The Amazon Wine website is http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sd_allcat_wine?ie=UTF8&node=2983386011

On the side of the wine page, Amazon has several filters available to help consumers quickly choose a wine. Selections include the type of wine, grape variety, winery location, taste notes, brand, price and more.

The majority of wines are between $10 and $50. A few are below ten and of course there are numerous wines over $50.

Shipping costs of wine is always a concern. Currently Amazon is offering to ship wine for $9.99 for one bottle up to six bottles. That’s a stiff price for the shipping of one bottle of wine; however, for six bottles that is very reasonable. While visiting wineries we have heard that shipping for a case of wine reaches well over $30.

Will I purchase wine through Amazon? Perhaps on occasion but my preference is to discover and visit wineries to find the wines I enjoy.

Will you buy wine from Amazon Wine?

Cheers, Kathy

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Congratulations to Perennial Vineyards

November 7, 2012 – 2:15 pm

Congratulations to The Winery at Perennial Vineyards, in Navarre, Ohio that was chosen by Readers’ Choice awards, Massillon Independent and named the best place for a date and the best place for live music.

Tonight visitors will listen to live music by Jimmy Chesterfield from 6 to 8 pm.
On November 14 live music is provided by Scott Paris and November 21 REN from 7 to 9pm will be there.

While visiting the winery be sure to ask about the White Turkey wine, a semi-sweet white wine.

For more information about The Winery at Perennial Vineyards, there is a review of the winery on Wine Trail Traveler.

Cheers!

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“A Wine Journey” – An Inspiring Journey Anyone Can Enjoy

November 7, 2012 – 10:40 am

Quote from A Wine Journey by Terry and Kathy Sullivan

“We are ordinary people who like wine. Our experiences, along our wine journey, can be enjoyed by anyone. We hope that as you read about our wine experiences, consider if you could see yourself doing something similar. ”

A Wine Journey will be available for the holidays.

Cheers!

 

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