We’ve had about a week and a half to recover from our Nine Days of Virginia Wine tour, so last night, with great trepidation, I compared calendar to checklist and realized, with no small amount of stress, that we had nine available days to cover 48 wineries before our self-imposed deadline of December 7. December 7 allows us to claim, forever after, that we visited 150 Virginia wineries in 150 days.
So lyrical. So impressive. So much better than “150 Wineries in 157 Days.” Or, as Rick suggested, “150 Wineries in 150 Days (plus 3 days).” Although that last one is kind of cute, I admit.
Though we once managed to traverse seven-count-em-seven wineries in one memorable and godforsaken day in Albemarle County, our preference is to shoot for five. We averaged four a day on our Nine Days tour, but that included 3 1/2 hours a day of driving, so there’s only so much you can do with a schedule like that. Now, if the wineries would stay open until 9 or 10PM, then we could really cook, but they seem to think that 7 or 8 tasting room hours a day seven days a week 52 weeks a year is enough. Slackers.
So here we sit, with 9 days and 48 wineries left to visit. We both work full-time on actual paying jobs, so we’re only able to winery on weekends, and we used up all our available vacation time on the Nine Day Tour. So, something has to go. Will it be Florida for Thanksgiving with Rick’s dad? Or Saturday’s rally on the Mall with Nancy’s family? Parents or siblings? Turkey or sanity?
Turkey, as you well know, takes it.
So off to Charlottesville for the third time this Saturday. Fortunately we were able to snag this great Groupon lodging deal. And it has both a fireplace AND a big claw-foot tub. We batted zero on both during the Nine Day tour. Maybe our luck’s about to change.
Tags: Charlottesville, Virginia, wine, wineries
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