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Entries Tagged as 'North Carolina wines'

The best day ever

April 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Two days in my 7 years of North Carolina have really stood out: my wedding day, and a day about 4 years ago that I spent canoeing down the Haw River. Yesterday I got to combine the two: Barry and I paddled the Haw together. This was a different stretch: a little further north, class [...]

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Tags: 27701 · Beaver Lodge Local 1504 · Friends & Family · North Carolina · North Carolina wines · kayaking

Another day in the Yadkin Valley

October 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments

Barry and I got up earlier than usual on Saturday, and hit the road by 7:30am for a day trip to the Yadkin Valley. The purpose of this trip was not wine-tasting (although we did a bit), but to scout the area with thoughts towards possibly buying land there some day.
We made a brief stop [...]

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Tags: North Carolina · North Carolina wines

White wine chosen

September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

The white wine for the wedding: Viognier from RagApple Lassie.
RagApple Lassie was one of the wineries we stopped at earlier this month. Beautiful, big space, nice wine-tasting room. Short tour included something I’d never seen in all my wine tours in Napa and Sonoma: vats of freshly crushed grapes. Made me want to take my [...]

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Tags: North Carolina · North Carolina wines · Wedding · Wine