Thursday, July 1, 2010

We Heard It Through The Grapevine...

Today we decided to take a drive through the Hudson Valley.  We got a glimpse of the

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Hudson River as we drove in and around and up and

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down the back roads.  This one was the Milton Turnpike, LOL!

We saw beautiful

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flowers blooming beside the road and there were

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apple orchards everywhere.

Then we found this old

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winery.  It is the oldest winery in America, founded by John Jaques in 1839.

We decided to join in 

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We signed up here

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in the main tasting room where we visited with Franklin.  When Kevin, our guide was ready, we

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followed him outside where we got a brief history lesson about the beginning of the winery.  We started our walk around the property where Kevin pointed out the

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mansion that is being restored and soon to become a bed and breakfast.

All of the grapes are trucked in from different vineyards around the state and are then processed and bottled here

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at this factory.

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watched through the

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window as the empty bottles were filled,

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capped,

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sealed, and sent on down the line

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for a label.

Kevin then took us down into the

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cellars.  We walked though lots of

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doors and down long hallways.  We saw rooms where

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the barrels of wine are aged.

Once we were back outside, we saw

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just a few grapevines that are grown here at the winery for fall festival use only.

This is an

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old press that Zachary and

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Lauren tried to use.

The flowers blooming

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around the property were beautiful.

When our tour was over, we ended up back in the tasting room/gift shop where we started.

What a fun day on the back roads

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in the Hudson Valley.

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