Volume 1 Trail Traveler Issue 8 September 2007 Newsletter

Sip and Shop

I Love to Shop with Wine; glassware or treasured hand-painted Sometimes I Even Buy It stemware. Owner and winemaker, Fred Frank of Dr. Konstantin Frank’s With more than 60 percent of sales Vinifera Wine Cellars in New York, to women, are beginning emphasizes, “Riedel glassware does to cater to this group; no wonder make a difference when tasting many tasting rooms are adding eye- .” Tastings of champagne at catching products to their shelves. Kluge Estate in Virginia are with Riedel stemware. Wine together with delightful shopping opportunities is the Visitors can discover a display of recipe for a satisfying and awesome colorful Polish stoneware at Keuka afternoon. Relax and sip a glass of Spring , in New York Crystal display at Trentadue Winery, your favorite or blend, as State’s Finger Lakes region. This California you browse. Discover distinctive set features dishes with a bold, dark gifts. Look for humorous quotes blue edge and purple grape clusters musical, bubbling brook. like “Got Wine?” “I love cooking with dark green leaves, brushed with wine…sometimes I even put across the plate. Glazed, with an At Bully Hill Vineyards in the Finger it in the food,” or “Wine improves off-white background, these dishes Lakes, a separate two-floor building with age the older I get, the better are lovely. According to Co-owner makes a wonderful shopping I like it.” Judy Wiltberger, Polish stoneware is experience. Choose from lovely very popular. kitchen accessories to Christmas Prince Michel in Virginia has a large decorations. A Christmas corner is tasting bar surrounded by a great Look for distinctive food items availabe year-round. selection of quality merchandise. available at some wineries. One buyer travels to New York Gourmet chefs at Kluge Estate Check out a winery’s website before to purchase unique items for the Winery prepare picture-perfect you visit. Websites will frequently tasting room displays. Unusual foods. Fill a decorative box with provide you with the hours, days shaped glass vases, jewelry, some of these Yummy Napoleons, and what to expect at the winery. assorted bags and silver display Strawberry Cheesecake, Sunburn If you want to read a visitor’s items are some of the hundreds of Tarts and more. perspective on a winery, visit items available. Choose between Wine Trail Travelers Winery Review knickknacks and elegant pieces. At Adams County Winery in section with over 100 reviews. Pennsylvania, visitors can ask for K.S. Searching for a wedding gift? custom gift baskets. Personally Perhaps champagne glasses would chosen selections make wonderful be perfect for the happy couple. all-occasion gifts. Nancy Quarella Look for winery-recommended at in In This Issue makes baskets year-round and during the holidays has 40 baskets Sip and Shop of all sizes and shapes available. What’s New on the Website? Gift certificates are often available in tasting rooms. These make Shopping Tips delightful gifts for any occasion. The Winery Art Scene Perhaps a friend would appreciate a certificate to Wintergreen Havest 2007 Winery near Nellysford, Virginia. Wintergreen loans picnic baskets FAQ for food purchased in the tasting room. Visitors can purchase tasty gourmet treats, cheeses and drinks, Partners and enjoy them under a lovely Gift items at the Wintergreen Winery overhanging willow tree or along a tasting room Recipes with Wine Shopping Tips Shopping for the Holidays Green Shopping

Do you like the Christmas spirit Are you shopping with the when you shop? Plan to do your environment in mind? Whether shopping nearer to the holidays. you want to purchase a new gift, As the holidays get closer, you will arts and crafts or wine, with a find tasting rooms decorated for careful selection of your gifts at a the season. Linganore Winecellars winery you will be taking a step in in Maryland has shelves decorated the right direction. for the holidays and more Second floor of gift shop at Bully Hill decorations throughout the tasting When shopping for wine, ask Vineyards, in New York, has holiday room. the wine consultant about the gifts available throughout the year. management. If she/he Relax, taste some boutique wines mentions sustainable, biodynamic What’s New on the Website? and browse gaily decorated or organic farming, that is a good wineries for those special gifts. sign that the vineyard is concerned Our return visitors will notice a about the environment and the new look of the Wine Trail Traveler If looking for wine, check out mulled vineyard manager is taking steps website. The site underwent a wine. Some wineries suggest a to protect it. Very few wineries are new design during the summer particular wine and a bag of spices able to produce organic wine. This and was launched September to simmer in a crock-pot. Often is due to the tough government 1st. This new site design will these same tasting rooms will restrictions on what qualifies as an make navigation easier. Some of have a crock-pot of mulled wine organic wine. You may find wine the menu items have changed simmering and offer you a taste. labeled as made from organic names. Winery Reviews replaces The fragrance throughout the grapes. Sulfites to protect the the Wine Trails menu and Wine room is delightful and definitely wine may be added during the Simplified replaces the Learning adds to the holiday spirit. winemaking process. If sulfites go menu. The Community menu has beyond a certain level, the wine been replaced with Recipes and Make your bottle of wine extra cannot be labeled organic wine. the Forum menus. A new menu, special by asking the winery if Opinion, offers our writers a they have a recipe to go with the When you travel to vineyards place for editorials and columns. wine. Tasting rooms are wonderful in late winter or early spring, The Partners menu replaces the sources of recipes. you are likely to see large piles Winery Listing menu. Check out of cuttings. Grapevine cuttings our site and explore the different Candles are a popular gifts at can be fashioned into attractive areas. wineries. Many of the candles have accessories. Look for decorated scents of popular wine aromas. grapevine wreaths for sale. Once again we visited some Folly Hills Winery in Pennsylvania Michigan wineries and one and Kluge Estates in Virginia have In some tasting rooms, you may Pennsylvania winery. The nice selections of candles. see corks used to make a variety Michigan wineries were: of items. Whether mirrors framed St. Julian Winery, Parma with corks, hot place mats or Cherry Creek Cellars bottle holders, creative uses for corks can be discovered. A few The Pennsylvania winery was: tasting rooms sell bottles which Pickering Winery have lights placed inside them. Occasionally, the bottle is also New winery visits took us for the hand painted and dramatically first time to New Jersey: dressed up. It is a delight to look Hopewell Valley Vineyards at while the simple bottle gives off a gentle light. Be on the lookout Bellview Winery for these unique and frequently recycled objects.

We visited Terrapin Station in A gift certificate for grapevines Maryland. They hope to release is an alternative idea. This is the perfect gift for someone who likes their first in the fall of Wine scented candles at Kluge Estate Winery, 2007. In 2008 they may open by Virginia to garden and a gift they will appointment. remember for years to come. The Winery Art Scene Harvest 2007

There is an art to winemaking. Many winery tasting rooms sell Mother Nature is always an element Passion drives the winemaker local artists creations from their involved in vineyard management. to create a wine that possesses tasting room. Local artists submit a In 2007 some vineyards were a balance between fruit, acid, portfolio of their work to Pentamere devastated by a hard late frost. alcohol and tannins. Similarly, an Winery in Michigan. Chosen artists In Virginia temperatures were as artist seeks balance in a painting, have their work displayed for several low as 18 or 19 degrees after bud sculpture or pottery. It is little weeks. The tasting room is booked break. Other areas throughout wonder then that many winery for several months in advance. The the U.S. suffered due to frost tasting rooms offer a venue for second floor of Friday’s Creek winery, damage. While vines may survive local artists. in Maryland, is an art gallery. Local to produce another year, the frost artists provide paintings, pottery damaged vines produce fewer Occasionally the winery owner and sculptures for purchase. grapes. or staff member is also an artist. Walter S. Taylor, founder of Bully In some vineyards, the grapes Hill Vineyards in New York, painted are being harvested earlier than over 500 watercolors. At times, ever. In Italy some vineyards are prints of his paintings were used a month earlier than usual due to for wine bottle labels. Many of his the hotter than normal weather. paintings rest in a gallery next to the winery tasting room. Jim Sullivan The good news is that it’s not too was a graphic artist who began late to participate in harvesting Sullivan Vineyards, California, in grapes in a vineyard. Check the 1972. Today his daughter Kelleen wineries in your area. Call or is an artist who is also involved in check their website. Wineries who the winery operations. Edward W. harvest their grapes by hand may Pelton is a sculpturer whose piece need help. One vineyard manager “Man in Motion” greets visitors Art Gallery at Friday’s Creek Winery in we visited, likes having volunteers along the driveway to Veritas Maryland come to help, but smiled as Vineyard and Winery in Virginia. he recalled volunteers who left Edward works at the winery and From photography, paintings, because it was too hot. his wife, Emily is one of the award sculptures, to pottery an astute winning winemakers at Veritas. The shopper can find the right gift often Watch for Wine Trail Traveler’s owner of Cascata Winery, in New at reasonable prices at winery October Newsletter with more York, is also an accomplished artist. tasting rooms. Clover Hill Winery about harvesting grapes. Coralee Burch has several of her in Pennsylvania offers many unique paintings available for purchase in gifts. They have a wide assortment the winery tasting room. Owner and of different wine bottle holders and winemaker Sergio Neri of Hopewell hand etched Romanian glassware. Valley Vineyards in New Jersey has The next time you visit a winery a passion for using copper to create tasting room, amble through the tasting room fixtures. room looking for unique gift items. T.S.

Volunteers harvesting grapes at Basigini Winery in Maryland

FAQ

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Many small boutique wineries Coralee Burch’s art on display at Just a few of the different wine bottle enjoy having volunteers and Cascata Winery in New York. holders avilable at Clover Hill Winery in indeed need volunteers. Give your Pennsylvania favorite wineries a call. Wineries frequently ask for help in their newsletters, so sign up for those free newsletters. Our Winery Partners Recipes with Wine Grilled Rock Lobster Stop by these wineries that list with Wine Trail Traveler. Be sure to check the winery ads for more 2 T lemon juice detailed and updated information. 4 T Dr. Frank ½ c olive oil Basignani Winery ½ t black pepper 15722 Falls Road, ½ t garlic salt Sparks, MD 21152 2 t paprika 2 rock lobster tails Fiore Winery 3026 Whiteford Road Combine lemon juice, Rkatsiteli, olive oil, black Pylesville, MD 21132 pepper and garlic salt in a small bowl. Split lobster tails lengthwise with a large knife. Brush flesh side King Ferry Winery of tail with marinade. Place tails, flesh side down 658 Lake Road on a medium grill and cook for 10 to 12 minutes King Ferry, New York 13081 turning once. Baste frequently with marinade and sprinkle with paprika. Lobster is done when firm to Kluge Estate Winery & Vineyards the touch. 100 Grand Cru Drive Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 Provided by Dr. Konstantin Frank’s Vinifera Wine Cellars, New York. Pearmund Cellars 6190 Georgetown Road Broad Run, VA 20137 Lakewood’s Pear & Walnut Crumble

Veritas Vineyard & Winery 2 – 15 cans of pears (halves) 145 Saddleback Farm 1 T lemon juice Afton, Virginia 22920 ½ c, plus 1 T flour ¼ c sugar The Winery at La Grange 2 T Lakewood Vineyards Port 4970 Antioch Road ½ c walnuts, finely chopped Haymarket, Virginia 20169 ¼ c light brown sugar ½ t salt 6 T butter (cut into pieces) Our Lodging Partners ¾ c crumbled blue cheese Hilton Garden Inn, Allentown West 230 Sycamore Road Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and grease a 9-inch Breinigsville, PA 18031 baking dish. Phone (610) 398-6686 Drain the pairs and cut into slices. In a bowl, toss Hilton Garden Inn, Kennett Square the pears with the lemon juice, 1 T flour, sugar and 815 E. Baltimore Pike Port. Arrange the pear mixture in a baking dish Kennett Square, Pennsylvania 19348 (there will be liquid too, that’s OK.). Phone (610)-444-9100 Combine the remaining ½ c four, brown sugar, walnuts and salt. Add the butter pieces, working them in with your fingers, a pastry cutter or fork, until it resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle this over the pear mixture.

Bake until it is golden brown and the pear mixture is bubbling (about 30 minutes.) Remove from the “Wine makes daily living oven and sprinkle the blue cheese over the top. Return to the oven for another 5 minutes (until the easier, less hurried, with cheese is melted.) Remove from oven and let stand for at least 10 minutes before serving. Enjoy warm fewer tensions and more with Lakewood Vineyards Port. tolerance.” Provided by Lakewood Vineyards, New York Have a recipe that uses wines as an ingredient? If Benjamin Franklin you’d like it published on Wine Trail Traveler send it to [email protected].