Wine Tasting on the Blueridge Parkway

We arrived at the cabin at around 3pm. Stopped at a little side-of-the-road fresh produce store just before turning off the main road, so Elizabeth and Joe could pick up a few extra items for the cabin. The cabin was a modest looking place on a hill, with a lovely pond overlook in front, and a beautiful big tree-farm hill rising up on the other side of the road.

The home was much larger on the inside than it looked from the outside. An addition had been put on the back side of the original 3 bedroom house, with a very large den and equally huge fireplace on one floor, and wonderful large 4th bedroom on the 2nd floor. We unpacked the car, Joe and Elizabeth settled their stuff into the 4th BR, and Pam and I selected and settled into our BR choice on the 1st floor.

After settling in, we all hopped into the car again for to try to make it to a wine-tasting venue on the Blueridge Parkway. Joe showed us a short-cut through to the Parkway - a road that eventually became a nearly single-lane gravel path, winding it's way up to the Parkway road. Really pretty drive! The road came up to the Parkway suddenly, with a sharp up-hill stop. Joe warned about the uphill stop sign to the 'next road', but said it wasn't a very big deal cause the road is lightly traveled. Well Pam got nearly half way into the lane before stopping, and then we realized that this 'lightly traveled', no big-deal road was in fact the Parkway. Oy! Well, fortunately, there was nobody on the road when we jutted into it, so we pulled on, and drove south.

About 6 or 7 miles along, we turned right onto another side-road for maybe another mile or two, and then pulled into the winery, set into a slight valley. Interesting place, with a small-ish sales room. We browsed it for just a few minutes, but it was fast approaching their closing time, so we sat down for some of the wine tasting they had to offer. We tried small quantities of quite a few of them, while the tasting-guide explained them. Pam followed the sweet white varieties, and I followed the more full-bodied reds. We purchased a few bottles of our favorites, and headed back for the cabin.