CHAUTAUQUA WINE
TRAIL
. . . a fascinating “grape experience”
Thursday June 24, 2010
$99 per person
Today you’ll be learning the history of grape growing in Chautauqua
County, New York’s largest grape-growing region, beginning our grape experience
at Woodbury Vineyards while tasting several different wines. You’ll be learning
how to properly taste wine and how the tongue produces each taste.
We’ll travel a short portion of the Seaway Trail seeing the mansions on the
Avenue, hearing about the War of 1812, the Underground Railroad, the W.C.T.U..
You’ll be dining at the historic White Inn, a charter member of the Duncan Hines
family of fine restaurants. During the afternoon we’ll be touring the wine
cellars at Merritt Estate Winery, seeing the pressure pad, tank room and
bottling line (if operating) . . . and then we get to taste several of their
wines. At our third stop, the Roberian Winery, you’ll see the oak barrels that
age the wines before entering their high-tech bottling line. Maybe you’ll be so
knowledgeable that you’ll be asked to “grade each wine”. All passengers must be
at least 21 years of age.
Elyria, No Olmsted, Midd Hts, Independence, High Hts, Willoughby, Ashtabula