LIWINEDAD

  During part of our Mid-March pick-up expedition , we added in a new winery (well, new to us) for a full tasting.   Jo is the driver today, so I was able to explore a large selection of the Suhru Wines portfolio, two flights, a total of 8 wines in all.   The Tasting Room is located in a small building that you quickly drive by, so be on the lookout for the roadside sign (Figure 1).   The main entrance is a reminiscence of a professional office such as a dentist’s office.   (Figure 2).   The inside opens up to a bright, colorful airy room with request tables and a bar.   There is also outside seating with a fine view of the parking lot but a perfect ambiance overall.   The team greeted us, walked us through our choices, and provided details on each tasting wine.   Under the heading of it a small world while chatting with the server, we found out that he had grown up in the same town and knows our future daughter-in-law!   The wine tasting menu has many options for flights, wine by the

  Time for the next round of pickups, and we were able to add in lunch and tasting at two new to us places.  Given that we were adding in at least one full tasting at a first visit winery, we decided to have a large lunch first to help buffer all the fine wine to follow.  So the first Stop was the Cooperage Inn for lunch, followed by pickups at Roanoke Vineyards , Lieb Cellars , Sparkling Pointe , Suhru Wines , and Terra Vite Winery & Vineyard (Figure 1).  In the past, we have stopped at the Cooperage inn but only to use their outside pickup window for NOFO Pot Pies (Figure 2).  We spent over an hour at lunch and then picked up five Pot Pies for friends and Family.  Lunch was fantastic, requiring a separate posting at the liwinedad-cooperage inn to discuss how enjoyable the lunch was.  Roanoke Vineyards, Lieb Cellars, and Sparkling Point were our classic drive-by pickups, except we also picked up for our friends at Roanoke and Sparkling Pointe, which quickly fill the SUV.  Each