Passport – CT Wine Trail
The 2010 Passport Season has begun!
2010 is year two of Sophie and Cecelia’s adventures on the CT Wine Trail. The rules are to have a tasting at 16 of the 30 wineries (they’re counting the CT Wine Festival as one of the tastings!). First and second prizes are a trip for two to the south of Spain in the dead of winter. More here.
We’re both graduates of the 5 S’s of Wine Tasting, yet I’m not quite comfortable with the new vocabulary. To me, the wine is still dry or sweet, pleasant (to me) or not, something to buy or not. I am excited that I am now able to smell berries, vanilla, and a couple of other distinct aromas. I don’t say yummy as much. Still, the joy is in the exploration as well as the discovery.
First Excursion – weekend of May 16 and 16, 2010:
It’s all good!
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Passport 2009
This page contains the chronological collection of links to the posts of Sophie and Cecelia’s adventures tasting their way through Connecticut wineries. (2009)
Bear in mind as you read these posts that neither of us is a professional wine taster and are learning the terminology on the fly. Please don’t think less of a wine because we describe it as yummy instead of using some eloquent vocabulary.
The setup: Passport to Connecticut Farm Wineries
How it works: In a nutshell, visit 14 of the 20-some-odd Connecticut wineries, get your Passport stamped at each one, submit the Passport to enter the contest.
June 28, 2009: DiGrazia & McLaughlin
July 12, 2009: Land of Nod
August 1, 2009: Miranda, Sunset Meadow, & Haight-Brown
August 29, 2009: Gouveia, Priam, & Heritage Trail
August 30, 2009: Rosedale, Jerram, & Connecticut Valley
September 26, 2009: Hopkins & Jones
October 17, 2009: Return to McLaughlin to submit Passports
Visited Wineries:
- Connecticut Valley Winery, 1480 Litchfield Turnpike (Route 202) New Hartford, CT 06057 (860) 489-WINE
- DiGrazia Vineyards, 131 Tower Rd., Brookfield, CT 06804, (203) 775-1616
- Gouveia Vineyards, 1339 Whirlwind Hill Road, Wallingford, CT 06492, (203) 265-5526
- Haight-Brown Vineyard, Chestnut Hill, Litchfield, CT 06759, (860) 567-4045
- Heritage Trail Winery, 291 North Burnham Highway, Lisbon, CT 06351, (860) 376-0659
- Hopkins Vineyard, 25 Hopkins Road, New Preston, CT 06777 (860) 868-7954
- Jerram Winery, 535 Town Hill Rd. (Rte. 219), New Hartford, CT 06057 (860) 379-8749
- Jones Winery, 606 Walnut Tree Hill Road, Shelton, CT 06484 (203) 929-8425
- Land of Nod Winery, 99 Lower Road, East Canaan, CT 06024, (860) 824-5225
- McLaughlin Vineyards, 14 Albert’s Hill Road, Sandy Hook, CT 06482, (203) 426-1533
- Miranda Vineyard, 42 Ives Road, Goshen, CT 06756, (860) 491-9906
- Priam Vineyards, 11 Shailor Hill Road, Colchester, CT 06415, (860) 267-8520
- Rosedale Farms & Vineyard, 25 East Weatogue Street, Simsbury, CT 06070 (860) 651-3926
- Sunset Meadows Vineyards, 599 Old Middle Street Route 63 Goshen, CT 06756, (860) 201-4654
That’s 14!
An interesting discovery: many of these wines taste different later, once you get them home and out of the close proximity of the other wines at the tasting. I reserve the right to update some of my original posts with my new taste-feelings about particular wines.
