Twin Brook Winery

Over Memorial Day weekend we vivited our excellent friends A&J in Pennsylvania. On our first day there, and because our friends know us so very well...they took us to a local winery: Twin Brook Winery in Gap, PA. I really enjoyed the visit, friendly staff, good wine, beautiful setting, and a lot of wine. Often when visitng local wineries you find a place that might only have a handful of wines. Not so at Twin Brook. They have an impressive list of wines and Lauren and I walked away with three each; although we could have bought a lot more.

And because I happened to metion to the lovely woman who did our tasting that we were bloggers...she gave us a quick tour of the area where they do the aging and bottling.

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And because it goes so brilliantly with cheese, after our visit to Twin Brook, A&J took us to the Gap cheesemonger/fromaggier Bill Houder at the Town Clock Cheese Shoppe (find him on Facebook!). Mr. Houder is probably the first fromaggier I have met and he certainly knows his cheese! I don't believe I've ever had a cheese tasting or would have even known how to start. But Mr. Houder took us through his vast selection beginning with the sheep cheeses, my favorite being the Ewephoria. From sheep we traveled through goat, gouda, brie, cheddar, blue, and swiss...although not necessarily in that order. We finished with the dessert cheeses, yes dessert cheese. My favorite there was the apricot stilton although my overall favorite was the English Cheddar Cheese with Garlic. It was like eating a roasted garlic clove that had maybe been sitting in the vicinity of some cheese. Pure awesomeness.

 

(Lauren's pic)

(Lauren's pic)

(Lauren's pic)

So if you're ever in Gap, PA...you know where you need to go!

Me in cheese heaven

(Lauren's pic)