Monday, October 14, 2013

North Georgia Getaway Weekend

We spent the weekend in North Georgia with some of our favorite people Katie and Sly Knight! Saturday my sweet husband got up with me before the sun so I could play with my new fixed focus lens.



Beautiful Morning in Dahlonega

Then we visited Cavender Creek Vineyards, Three Sisters Vineyards and Winery, Frogtown Cellars and Wolf Mountain Vineyards.

Katie and Sly enjoying our first wine tasting of the day at Cavendar Creek Vineyards

Katie on the front porch of Cavender Creek's tasting room

Some fixed focus fun at Three Sisters Vineyards

After our wine tasting at Three Sisters Vineyards we enjoyed their "Fat Boy Pink" - recommended to be paired with a ham sandwich or fried chicken with our BBQ lunch...and it was fabulous!



Then we spent some time wandering in the vineyards at Frogtown Cellars...




The last stop on our winery tour was Wolf Mountain Winery. After our tasting we explored the grounds and enjoyed the delicious picnic Katie and Sly had packed with some sparkling wine in the Vineyards.



Bokeh Fall Fun!



Sunday we stopped by Elijay to visit the Georgia Apple Festival.






We took a break from the orchard to play in the sunflowers and have some bottled cokes!





What a great Fall getaway weekend!


Monday, August 26, 2013

Wine Bottling Party




The Sugars hosted a "Wine Bottling Party" to celebrate finishing their wine making for the year and to...surprise - Bottle the Wine!

We started the afternoon off with a wine tasting from all of the previous years' wines and finished the tasting with the 2013 wines that we were about start bottling!



We got a crash course in wine making :


We spent some time enjoying the view from the beautiful Swiss Family Robinsonesque Deck...

 

 


Then the real work began...at least for some of the boys:





All Smiles!


Some had more difficult jobs than others, C.W. had the important task of taking care of the "overfilled" bottles and testing the product of course!


Of course I had to help too!


Such a wonderful way to spend a rainy day with friends. Braden had so much fun he's started looking into making his own wine!