Day 26: Barboursville Vineyard Virginia

We started our day pretty early, completing our drive through Skyline Drive & Shenandoah National Park around 1:00 pm. As we headed back towards the AirBNB, Paul found a vineyard not too far out of the way in Barboursville, Virginia. The grounds are lovely with ruins of the Governor’s Mansion designed by Thomas Jefferson to see. The history of the town, Governor Barboursville, and the vineyard made for a colorful visit and story,

We did the wine tasting which was excellent. See the next post for all the wines we sampled. From there we had an amazing lunch/dinner in “The Library” — They also have a fancy 5-star restaurant on property. We weren’t in the mood for that type of meal. “The Library” is pretty upscale already.

During the tasting they did NOT include “Octagon” their premium award winning wine. It’s only $75 a bottle. However, having tasted all their other wines we needed to experience their best. We each got a half-glass of Octagon - Everything about this wine takes you to a whole other level. This is not just a nice wine. This is a journey to a whole other level flavor and savor. The color, the nose, the complexity, the movement of flavor, with a very pleasing linger - a person doesn’t have to think long to understand why this is their flagship.

Our meal was amazing. Paul decided to have bread pudding for desert. Donna not really liking bread pudding figured she would have a test or two. We shared. Well almost! This was a bread pudding like non-other. Donna really loved this desert - we needed to order a second one. Executive Chef Michael who has been with Barboursville Vineyard for some time now takes dinning to the 5-star level. The whole culinary experience made us feel like we were eating at “The Chef’s Table” on the Viking Neptune World Cruise. All this orchestrated by Chef Michael.

Visiting Barboursville Vineyard was our capstone experience to complete our four week adventure. Tomorrow - we head home.Read more