Posted: 5/5/2009 7:54:19 AM EDT
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We will be passing through in August traveling down to Myrtle Beach and will be leaving from central PA. We are in no rush to get there so we figure we should make more of a touring trip out of it.
So I am asking you what are some places of interest that you would suggest? We have no time frame or itinerary maybe take 2-2.5 days to get to Myrtle Beach. My wife really enjoys going to wineries and noticed you have a ton of them around-any suggestions? Thanks in advance. 39 |
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RE: the wineries... the ones in western NoVa and in Central Va (Barboursville, for instance), have (on average) the more mature vines and a decent amount of experience in winemaking. Some of the wines are pretty good, others hover around mediocre. Breaux, Tarara, and Linden are worth trying in NoVA. I haven't been to Barboursville in ~20 years, so no comment for there, other than it's a different region.
Here's a link for you: http://www.weekendwinery.com/Wineries/Wineries_VA.htm In the Charlottesville area, there are a few wineries, the University of VA (always worth a look-see), Monticello, and Michie Tavern (fried chicken!!). |
| I don't have the particulars so if anyone can add on please do. If you're going through Hampton Roads, there's the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, some museums, Norfolk Botanical Gardens, you can also take a tour of the base http://www.norfolkvisitor.com/norfolknavy/ Goodluck, have fun, be safe. |
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Barboursville Vineyards would a nice stop for your wife... I enjoyed it three years in a row with an ex-girlfriend (birthday). One year we rented "The Cottage." Check and see what their schedule is, I know it always changes. I've been on their tours, tastings to follow, to wine parings for lunch and for dinner, $$$. I think the restaurant is a 4 star? It may be a five. Either way I liked it better than the other area vineyards which are also nice. You could spend the day running around and checking them out tasting wine with snooty accomplished virtuosos sometimes, and normal people for the most part.
Coming from a microbrew guy, the tours can be interesting, if shared with good people, and you like that kind of thing. I'd avoid the lectures and sit in discussions. They have some pretentious and boring people speak at some of those seminars. As a carpenter, all I could do was pretend to listen while thinking about the splitting raised panel wainscoting on the walls and wonder who decided to use nails during the last renovation. All together, I look back on it as a good time, a lot of money, but a good time. I love going to Myrtle though. |
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If your coming down from the PA turnpike, there is a wine tour near Leesburg VA. Depending on what your looking for, might want to consider newer Air and Space near Dulles Airport, its near the NRA Firearms museum.
Suggest Williamsburg winery headed out towards Norfolk and VA beach. Take the coast road and go thru NC coast (Kitty Hawk, ferry,etc, and then hit MB thru the backroads. |