Buffalo Grove

Grove Winery & Vineyards
7360 Brooks Bridge Road
Gibsonville NC 27249
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It has been snowing here in North Carolina with about six to twelve inches falling in the past couple of weeks. (Brrrrrrr!) Like our mailman we decided that neither rain nor sleet (or in our case neither rain AND sleet AND snow) would keep us from our drinkin’ tour.
The Grove Winery is located just a dozen miles north of Greensboro. We stopped in late in the day and sampled a few reds, whites and the standard dessert wine. Truthfully I don’t really remember everything we sampled but I never do, that is Janet’s “job.” You see, it was our third wine tasting of the day, and I suspected that she was half in the bag. I do remember the guy behind the counter offered a generous pour of several different wines. After the standard history spiel of the farm, we were treated to some hysterical commentary in addition to a discussion about some moss farming techniques, (ya see, growing moss is big over here), which would have involved the use of our kitchen blender, some buttermilk, and moss from our yard to mix up a batch of moss fertilizer. Janet made herself perfectly clear that if I attempted to brew up this moss concoction in her kitchen blender there would be a fight. Now I like moss as much as the next guy, but moss farming is not a hill I am willing to die on so we wrapped it up.

After sampling a half dozen offerings from the last Haw River Valley winery we would visit that day I found the Jug House Blush to be a good fit and Janet said the Chambourcin was her favorite. With our purchase in tow we said goodbye. The barkeep encouraged us to stop by and see Lucy the Buffalo on the way home. Not withstanding the generosity of the pour of our new friend at Grove Winery there really is a bona fide Buffalo at a farm less than a mile away. We suspect that the recommendation to see the Buffalo was as much a warning as a sightseeing tip. Janet and I both considered how the conversation might have been different if unwarned we came across a giant Buffalo grazing in a field alongside horses.

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