Wednesday, May 11, 2011

That's a horse of a different varietal!

I recently had the privilege of traveling to wine country, Long Island to attend an (amazing) wedding. Rather than spend our time at outlet malls or mini golfing in our down time before the ceremony, we wisely chose to tour a winery.

After fueling up on HP Desket Printer Pancakes at the Holiday Inn Express, we went to the nearby Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard



 
 
In addition to being a lovely winery with a nice, large tasting area, they were a horse rescue farm! Who could ask for anything more? Several of the wines that I tasted helped saved horses. Jealous?

 
 
I tried both the Angel and the Mirage wines. Both wines were named for rescue horses that were presently on their farm. Mmm horse wine. I actually didn't love their wines, but their horses are another story

 

The tour person explained how they acquired each horse. Some were found starving in their former owner's backyards; some were "retiring" race horses that were going to be killed ("We have another name for retired horse: Babies". Apparently horses sometimes stop racing around age 4).

And they had mini horses! These were taken from leprechaun villages.

They also had sexy emo horses

 

I spy with my little eyes, something that is horrible. Can you find it?




1 comment:

  1. ponies!

    and you are a sicko. dr. sicko, technically.

    ReplyDelete