Win(e)ding Trails: Continuing Adventures on the Connecticut Wine Trail

Having finished with both the Whites and Reds, Christy and I moved on to the Fruits, Dessert & After Dinner wines.  

Honey Nut Apple    First up was the Honey Nut Apple wine.  According to the Tasting Notes, this is one of the most popular wines among regular HB customers.  It’s a good fruit wine, sweet, but not cloyingly so, with nice notes of both apple and honey.

Golden Delight   Golden Delight is a blend of HB’s Seyval Blanc grapes with a “twist of lemon and honey.”  According to the Tasting Notes, it makes a good wine spritzer.  It’s a light-bodied wine, and I definitely think it would be better as a spritzer.  The least impressive of the three fruit wines.

AppleCrannie   This is a seasonal Fall wine made from apples and cranberries.  It has a lovely bouquet and while a bit tart, not surprising given the presence of both apples and cranberries, the flavors are subtle and blend nicely together.  It would be a nice pairing with horsd’oeuvres to start out a holiday meal. All in all a very interesting wine.

Apricot Moon   This is a fortified dessert wine that is truly delicious.  The Tasting Notes describe it as a “muscat wine with the essence of apricots.”  It is smooth and silky and really quite delicious.

Media Noche   This is a Spanish-style sherry.  Deeper and richer than the Apricot Moon, it too is smooth, with subtle hints of fruit, and absolutely delicious.  

Unfortunately this concluded our wine tasting.  Overall Christy and I both agreed that the wines were interesting with several standouts – our favorites being the Covertside White, The Apricot Moon and the Media Noche.  We both found the Morning Harvest interesting, although I think I liked it better than she did.  We also had a lot of fun – we really felt comfortable just relaxing and enjoying the wines and the conversation.  At no time did we feel rushed, and it was tempting to just buy a couple of bottles and sit on the sofa in front of the fire for the rest of the afternoon.  However, we had planned to stop at a second winery that day, so we picked up some flyers about upcoming classes and events, and reluctantly bid goodbye to our hosts.  We’ll be watching the event calendar, though, and will definitely be returning to Haight-Brown in the near future.