{"id":11551,"date":"2015-07-06T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11551"},"modified":"2015-07-06T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:00:57","slug":"take-a-trolley-ride-to-north-carolina-wineries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/06\/take-a-trolley-ride-to-north-carolina-wineries\/","title":{"rendered":"Take A Trolley Ride to North Carolina Wineries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina has numerous wineries both boutique size and larger. Some are the \u201cmom and pop\u201d size where the owners are dabbling seriously in making their own wines and offering visitors a relaxing time. Other wineries are seriously into producing wine and making a big business out of it. In either of these cases, wine enthusiasts are likely to discover that the international grapes are grown in the west while many wineries in eastern North Carolina are growing and making wines with international grapes and muscadine grapes<\/p>\n<p>In western North Carolina most of the wineries are small. However, a recent news item was about visiting a few wineries in July by trolley.\u00a0Two organizations,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrolleycompany.com\">The Trolley Company<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchbroadvignerons.org\">French Broad Vignernons,\u00a0<\/a>are working together to provide these opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Check the details and dates below. Tickets are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localwineevents.com\/events\/for_user\/358499\/posts-by-sip-in-time-wine-tours\">online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Catawba Valley Wine Trail<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Includes four wineries: Lake James Cellars, South Creek Winery, Silver Fork Winery, Belle Nicho Winery<\/li>\n<li>Five tastings at each winery<\/li>\n<li>Silver Fork Winery will include a cheese service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dates: July 16, July 24, July 31<\/p>\n<p><b>The Elevations Wine Trail<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Includes three wineries: Burntshirt Vineyards, Parker-Binns Vineyards, Mountain Brook Vineyards<\/li>\n<li>Experience major altitude changes<\/li>\n<li>Five tastings at each winery<\/li>\n<li>Parker-Binns Vineyard will provide a cheese service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dates: July 15, July 23, July 29<\/p>\n<p><b>The Gourmet Wine Trail<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Includes: Three vineyard visits: St Paul Mountain Vineyards, Addison Farms Vineyard, Fontaine Vineyards<\/li>\n<li>Five tastings at each winery<\/li>\n<li>St Paul Mountain Vineyards will serve a hard cider<\/li>\n<li>Addison Farms Vineyard will provide a cheese service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dates: July 17, July 22, July 30<\/p>\n<p>If you are planning to visit\u00a0\u00a0North Carolina in July, try taking a trolley trip to wineries! Sounds like fun to me! Also check out the numerous articles about wineries in North Carolina\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/northcarolina\/northcarolina.php\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Take A Trolley Ride to North Carolina Wineries\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11551\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In North Carolina, two organizations The Trolley Company and the French Broad Vignernons are working together to provide visits to wineries by trolley!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[3398,302,1400,88,870,3759],"class_list":["post-11551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-gourmet-wine-trail","tag-north-carolina","tag-tourism","tag-travel","tag-trolley","tag-wineries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11553,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551\/revisions\/11553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}