We first went to Barboursville per the concierge's recommendation. This vineyard had like 20 wines to taste, and as usual my favorites were the dessert wines. We then got a tour of the production areas of the vineyards. The cool part about the vineyards were the "ruins" which was the brick outter skeleton of the vineyard owner's house which was designed by Thomas Jefferson. Architecturally, the most unique part was the Jefferson trademark octagon. Unfortunately at some point the house burnt down and they were unable to rebuild.
The second vineyard was called Jefferson Vineyard. The vineyard is located on the former land of Thomas Jefferson's. Legend has it that TJ had tried to grow grapes for wine multiple times by importing the grapes from Italy, but the American Soil etc killed them, untill the person who ran the barboursville vineyard figured out how to graft the italian grapes onto the stock of the american grapes so they could survive. Who knows what exactly of that is true. The other story is that one of TJ's failed attempts got trampled by soldiers coming through. We bought a bottle of viogner.
The final vineyard was the Kluge vineyard. This one was super cute because the flights were given in a very beautiful presentation, and the food looked delicious. If i hadnt had a 5 course meal planned for that night I would have eatten so much. If i lived near there it would be the perfect date spot. The wine we bought was a dessert wine mixed with brandy. It was very interesting in a good way.
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