Posts under ‘winery’

This is the fourth installation of Passport to Connecticut Wineries, or Sophie and Cecelia’s adventures tasting their way through Connecticut wineries! Standard disclaimers apply: we are not a professional wine connoisseurs—we’re just enjoying local wines. On Saturday, August 29, we visited Gouveia Vineyards, Priam Vineyards, and Heritage Trail Winery. Gouveia Vineyards 1339 Whirlwind Hill Road, [...]

Sophie & Cecelia’s adventures on the CT Wine Trail will resume this weekend. Here’s a little something to tide you over while you wait.

This is the second installation of Passport to Connecticut Wineries, or Sophie and Cecelia’s adventures tasting  their way through Connecticut wineries! On Sunday, July 12, 2009 we visited Land of Nod Winery in East Canaan, CT. Traveling to East Canaan (from Newtown) is a scenic trip up Rt. 7, stopping just short of Massachusetts. Land [...]

This is the first installation of Passport to Connecticut Wineries, or Sophie and Cecelia’s adventures tasting  their way through Connecticut wineries! On Saturday, June 28, 2009, we visited DiGrazia Vineyards and McLaughlin Vineyards. DiGrazia Vineyards 131 Tower Rd., Brookfield, CT 06804, (203)775-1616 I was immediately impressed with the grotto at the entrance. Once inside, the [...]

Regular readers of this blog know that I visit McLaughlin Vineyards on a regular basis. They are one of the closest farms to my home and their Vista Riposa is a red wine that goes with just about everything I eat. This past weekend, I visited Digrazia Vineyards and Winery and enjoyed that as well. [...]

It sounds like the begining of a joke, which could as easily have begun: a Priest and a Locavore walk into a winery… Anyway, we did (walk into a winery); McLaughlin Vineyards. It was Saturday afternoon and we’d spent the day Locavoring around New Haven. On the way home, we decided to stop into our [...]