Traveling the Wine Route
This long weekend was so fun! I love simply getting in a car and just go...somewhere, anywhere, but the getting in the car part was the hardest task for the weekend. Alex had to wait almost an hour for the rental company to get the car ready and sign the contract before he could go home and get his luggage and come pick me up. Gee..stupid Enterprise Rent-a-car. Anyway, as soon as he got to my place we were off on the QEW heading to Niagara.
Wonderful weekend of wine, a couple hands of gambling and mostly dice rolling, wine, beautiful fireworks at the falls, the horseshoe fall itself, and of course, more wine. We went to Casino Niagara on the first night. It was probably the most uneventful day cuz we left Toronto so late so by the time we put down our luggage at Anderson's B&B and drove to Niagara, Saturday was already over. But, Casino Niagara sucked anyway cuz it was under construction. The best part of Saturday was driving 160 on the local streets in the rented Jetta to get back home in the pitch black darkness of Welland where are B&B was located.
On a side note, Anderson's B&B was really clean, the couple Marg and Ed were very friendly. I'd recommend Anderson's if anyone wants to have a B&B experience living outside of the busy city in Niagara. It's only a 20min. drive to Niagara if you know were you're going and taking the right route. 20 mins. I guess because of the speed we were driving at.
Sunday, we woke up and went to 4 different wineries and had 3 winery tours. Chateau des Charmes is proud to be French, Pellar was stellar...lol, Jackson Triggs was really unique and the other one we went to was small and not quite worth mentioning, Strewn I think it was called. All that wine...Merlot, Chardonnay, Riesling, Gerwurztaminer...hmmm...can't remember what else. Of course there's the late harvest and the unoaked, ice wine and etc. etc. The last 3 wineries we went to were huge! A gigantic chateau, very lovely, with stretches of acres of land just for those grapes. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, oh how can I forget...Vidal. Alex bought a bottle of Vidal Ice Wine...so sweet, like honey...mmmmmm. It's kinda too sweet, but I guess it goes well after an over powering dinner. I care more for the late harvest Riesling, cuz it was less sweet...I like the cheaper late harvest. Anyone can tell I'm a beginner wine drinker. But apparently the Vidal won a gold award in Canada, an award of excellence and Silver in Vancouver.
If anyone wants to share the experience do ask, the bottle is too big for Alex and I to finish it in 2-3 days!! But of course, Fallsview paid for most of the accomodation expenses and that bottle of wine! Ah, Casino Fallsview, it's nice when you win back the money you spent for your trip at the casino by just starting with a mere $20. Although we warmed our stomach with some Italian food at Vinny's which was horrible and watched the fireworks over the falls before we hit up the casino and left the winning money in our pockets.
Tony Roma's ribs are really good by the way. We went there twice this weekend. The first time was amazing, and the second time was even better cuz we had a $10 coupon. Sunday was leisurely spent at the midway. $20 took up a lot of our time spent crazily with tokens and tickets. So waiting for most of the traffic to pass, we left after dinner and it took us a little under 2 hours to get home. Unfortunately, I couldn't drive the Jetta a little more. I liked that it didn't have power steering, so the wheel was nice and heavy. At least I got a little speed down Allen Rd. Heh heh...
posted by Kareberry @ 10:42 a.m.
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