Sharpe Hill Vineyard in Pomfret, CT
Saturday, May 16th, 2009Boy, it’s been a busy few days. My parents landed at the Bradley International Airport, North of Hartford at about 12:30AM, Thursday morning. Laura and I got there at around midnight, so we had a hang around for a few minutes. It wasn’t too bad. Strangely enough, you get to watch some very interesting people while waiting outside an airport.
A few months ago, when my mother and I agreed on this trip, I had a whole itinerary planned out. We were going to go here and we were going to go there. Then, Laura and I went on that little trip to Stonington. It was during that trip that I remembered that I really don’t enjoy driving as much as I used to. I mean, short trips here and there are okay, but the long ones I can do without. Remembering this, I started planning to visit places that were just a tad bit closer than the ones I had previously planned to visit.
On Thursday, we all hopped in the car and drove up to the Red Lion Inn, in Stockbridge, MA. You all know that Laura and I have been there a lot, but my parents never have. I thought I would spare you the photos, since you have seen a million of them already. We had a nice lunch and I even let my father beat me at a game of chess.
On Friday, we had a great time up at the Sharpe Hill Vineyard in Pomfret, CT. None of us had been there before, so we really didn’t know what to expect. Luckily, we were all very pleasantly surprised. I think I heard the phrase, “You know, we could be in Italy right now and you wouldn’t know the difference” more than once.
For those of you who don’t know, Pomfret is up in the “Quiet Corner” of Connecticut. It’s a really cool place that brings you back to the good ol’ days. It’s peaceful, beautiful and best of all, nobody from Hartford tailgates you all the way down the road. Wow.
The Sharpe Hill Vineyard offers two different tastings; they differ based on amount of wine consumed. The first tasting costs $5 and you get to taste five types of wines. Actually, you can taste five of the same wines. They don’t mind. The second tasting offers eleven types of wines for $10. We chose the $5 one because I didn’t want to get tipsy in the middle of the day. Neither did anyone else. We were all very happy with our five choices.
I took a whole bunch of photos, so you can see what the vineyard looks like. It’s really nice and they even had a restaurant. Unfortunately, we were unable to eat there because reservations are taken three weeks ahead of time. Maybe Laura and I will have to make reservations to check out the food.
Here are the photos:
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- Parking lot of Sharpe Hill Vineyard
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- Looking past wooden fence up into the vineyard at Sharpe Hill
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- Purple and yellow Pansies
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- Purple Pansies with yellow center
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- Entrance to Sharpe Hill Vineyard
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- Different view of Sharpe Hill Vineyard parking lot
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- Up Close photo of purple and yellow Pansies
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- Tasting room door leading out to the back deck – Sharpe Hill Vineyard
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- Looking past a table up into the vineyard in mid Spring
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- Sharpe Hill table area – view 1
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- Sharpe Hill table area – view 2
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- Sharpe Hill table area – view 3
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- Leading off lounge area toward the dining room entrance
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- Again, looking up towards the vineyard
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- Sharpe Hill Vineyard dining room entrance
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- Sharpe Hill Vineyard
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- Clay frog and a little metal dog sitting on grass
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- Vines growing very young grapes
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- Walking up the vineyard
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- Up close photo of a grape vine at Sharpe Hill Vineyard
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- Looking down towards the main building
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- Nice view of vineyard and Pomfret, CT
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