This quaint winery dates to 1839 and offers tasting flights and guided tours of the underground cellars.
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Culinary Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg is a great town to spend some time in. With a variety of interesting stores in its historic downtown, combined with a number of interesting historic sites, such as the Mary Washington House, Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop, Kenmore, and the James Monroe Museum, you can easily spend several days without running out of great […]
Boutique Winery at Halbrendt Vineyard and Winery
Halbrendt’s Vineyard and Winery is a small family owned winery in Orrtanna, PA (west of Gettysburg) specializing in artisan wines from estate and locally grown fruit. The winery offers varietal wines and blends made from Cabernet Franc, Chambourcin, Cayuga White, Traminette, Vidal Blanc, Chardonnay and local fruit. Sometimes the winery hosts plein air painting in its […]
Enjoy the Countryside, Drink Some Wine!
Beginning in March, I started a series of posts about Clearfield County, PA. This is the second of the series. To see others in this series, click on the label “Clearfield County” at the bottom of this post Central PA usually raises visions of coal mines, lumber operations, or simply (and more positively) as elk […]
Painting Vineyards and Vistas
Wine. Lovely weather. Friends. Beautiful scenery. Painting. Seriously, those are all the ingredients for an incredible afternoon. Paint.Local.Social aims to bring this experience to everyone, no artistic talent needed! Vineyards and Vistas is a Plein Air painting experience at a local winery in Adams County. It will include all supplies and instruction along with wine samples. Andi […]
Try the Cider and Wine
The region around Gettysburg — Adams County — is known for the Civil War battle that raged there in 1863. But if you confine yourself to the just an exploration of Adams County’s Civil War sites, you’ll be missing out on a whole array of other wonderful day trip destinations. Long time readers of this […]
Virginia Renaissance Faire
Looking for something a little different to do for Mother’s Day, we found ourselves headed to the Virginia Renaissance Faire, at the Lake Anna Winery in Spotsylvania. It’s cozier, more intimate than at least two of its cousins to the north: the Maryland Renaissance Festival, in Crownsville, and the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire at the Mount […]
My Top 4 Dog Friendly Day Trips
Periodically (i.e., whenever the whim strikes me, I’ll post my top picks. This is another in the series My Top Picks posts. Links to the original posts will be embedded in the text. Let me know what you think of this new blog feature! 4. Tail Lights at Columbia, MD’s Symphony of LightsA lot of […]
My Top 5 Budget-Friendly Day Trips
Periodically I’ll post my top picks. This is the latest My Top Picks posts. Links to the original posts will be embedded in the text. Let me know what you think of this new blog feature! 6. Visit the National ZooWhether you take the metro or drive and park ($22 flat rate for parking), the Smithsonian […]
A Summer Afternoon Exploring the Loudon County Wine Trail
All my previous blogs on wineries have focused on mostly Maryland wineries. (I’ve visited some 17 of them over the past 2 years, some multiple times — check out this list of places the Blog has visited.) I’ve also visited a few wineries on the Brandywine Valley Wine Trail in Pennsylvania. All along, I’ve been […]