Margaret & Billy outside Greyhaven Winery
We spent Saturday touring the Virginia Heartland wineries with Margaret and Billy. Different (and probably better) wines than we have in the Finger Lakes, especially the reds which on the whole are rather good. One winery, Cooper Vineyards, not only remembered us from a stop there last year, but also impressed us because they have just started to make a chocolate wine which was good enough that I had to drink it despite the threat of a migraine. I had a little bit of a headache the next day, but whether that was from chocolate wine, too much wine (you may find it hard to believe, but I’m not used to drinking wine from 11 am to 11 pm, which was what happened that day), too little sleep, or the accumulated stress of almost two weeks on the road is anybody’s guess. In any case, it didn’t prevent us from going out for a great southern breakfast with Chuck and Nancy, before we headed into Richmond for a last visit to Margaret’s, where we took about a six mile run through the downtown Richmond historic district. Richmond decorates the entire downtown with what must be hundreds of lighted deer, and the game of the season is to find Rudolph. We never did find Rudolph, but we had a great run before heading out of town.
Margaret, Tom, and Jack
Intercity camping - can't you tell I love it?
Tom and me at some winery - definitely not the first
Alex & Jack, Margaret's sons
1 comment:
Okay, I definitely don't photograph well! And the name of the winery you can't remember is James River, in Ashland. Safe travels. Looking forward to the next installments!
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