Day 11 Wine & Cheese, Anyone?

We'd spent the morning cleaning the RV. Me on the inside, Glenn the outside. It was a grey, cloudy, sometimes drizzly morning.

By the afternoon we were ready to venture out and explore our surroundings a little. We started with the Weisinger's Vineyard in Ashland, OR. Great place, very nice people, but none of the wines were sweet enough for us. You can take the Carolinian out of the south but not the south from the Carolinian, or something like that.
They had a display case of bees in their beehives. Jill, the wine club manager, who was telling us about the winery, shared alot of interesting things with us. Glenn was intrigued by the bees who flew in and out of this case using the tube at the bottom left of the picture. Like a doggie door for bees. Pretty cool! Jill told us about alot of interesting things to see in this area while we are here. She pulled out maps and was a wealth of knowledge. She also googled the other wineries in the area to see which would offer sweeter wines. Only 2 of the 4 we planned to drop by today offer any sweet or dessert wines. So, using Tweeter (the name the ladies at CFCC and I came up with for our GPS system), we set out for one of those.

EdenVale Wines ~ gorgeous mansion (of course we failed to get pics outside because it started to rain.) They only had a couple of sweet wines for us to try. Glenn found one he liked and we purchased called Late Harvest Viognier.

We read in a Medford Visitor's Guide that you can tour the Harry & David plant. But we only saw this store when we drove up, so didn't go in. It is on the list to go back and visit though. They had all kinds of flowers & plants on both sides and the front of the building for sale. We went on down the street to the Roxy Ann Winery. This place was great. It is a farm. They have a fruit and veggie stand which will open after Memorial Day weekend. So we will definitely visit them again. I loved their Pear Wine! It was more along the line of our NC muscadine grape wines (especially my favorite the Duplin Wines). We did not get pics here either, but will next visit.

Our last stop was the Rogue Creamery. I almost forgot to get pics at the creamery too. They actually make the cheese here on site using local milk. They are especially known for their blue cheese but offer a large variety of curds, cheeses, crackers and breads as well as sell some local wines and spreads. We bought some smoked goat cheese, blue cheese and crackers.

The goat cheese is the ball to the left in this pic. It is wrapped and smoked in leaves, pretty interesting.

Then we came back home to the KOA.