Sunday, October 3, 2010

Wine Country

You know the difference between wine country, and wanna-be wine country? Spend a weekend in real wine country, and you'll never forget it.

In Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, you can tour the local vineyards and wineries. You can see their barrel rooms, taste their wines, maybe even hit a few in one day.

In Prosser, WA, the entire atmosphere is different. I've been in this town of 5,000 residents for less than 24 hours and I can see the difference. The town of Prosser has about thirty wineries, only a small fraction of the 700 or so in all of Washington state.

Literally, you can walk from tasting room to tasting room, like bar-hopping in a big city. Everywhere you go you can see either wine bars, tasting rooms, vineyards, or wineries. This is wine country, no doubt about it.
Eli
Bibo ergo sum

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