Our original intent was to stay home today since the weather was still in the “feels like over 100 degrees” stage. But, instead, we decided to look into the Deep Water Winery and Firefly Distillery.
Gilligan’s Seafood restaurant is right down the road and they have fried green tomatoes on the menu. We are still in search of fried green tomatoes that are better and closer than the ones we get in Vicksburg, MS. I’ve suggested to Greg that we need to start a “fried green tomato trail”. We’ve seen “wine trails”, “chocolate trails” and “barn quilt trails”.
When we pulled up we noticed that all of the posts around the deck had a fresh pineapple, orange and coconut sitting on them.
These fried green tomatoes were served with a crab cake. Good, but still not better than Vicksburg.
The road leading out to the winery is beautiful. If you reach the sign that says, “not the winery, turn around” you know you have gone too far like we did.
The gate is tucked back off the road so you have to be really looking for it.
They grow their own grapes for some of their wine and supplement with grapes from California for other wines. The current owners have been here three years and are making a lot of improvements.
We are looking for the wine tasting room.
Found it behind the gift shop. It wasn’t anything too fancy and there were several people there so no pictures. They had some wines that were labeled “sweet”, but their version of sweet and ours differ, so no purchases this time.
We didn’t do any sampling of the moonshine available at the distillery. I noted that their “white lightening moonshine” was 1006 proof. Some of the others sounded good, like apple pie moonshine. We did purchase some moonshine pickles that were low sodium, they are really good.
A couple of shaded picnic areas and a kid’s play area are available outside.
No comments:
Post a Comment