Catching up .Winnery..Smoky Mtns

I am a sweet wine liker. gr Usually, I never can taste all the different flavors that winemakers say they have in their wines. I can now taste oak, not my favorite.

We have been to many wineries on our trips. Last year in Cortez, Co. we found Guy Drew and went back there several times.  There is also a Rum maker there..unfortunately I forgot the name, he makes good rum.
We have stopped at Jefferson Wineries, as in Thomas Jefferson, and they were all to dry for my taste.
Outside of Winston Salem, at the Childress Winery, we found some nice wine and even a Red that I liked.
While we were in Lenoir, S.C. we were going to a winery that advertised they made their wines from local wild grapes. They were not open, so we went into the town and found the Carolina Mist Winery, 126 Mulberry St. N.W..  OMG, I liked all the wines they make.  All the whites and all the Reds..so did my daughter,husband and friend who was visitiing with us. We walked out with 5 cases between the 4 of us.  They do not grow the grapes, although, the winemaker Edward Campbell would like too .his wife, Carolyn dosen't ..he is in his 70s'.  Campbell_howard@msn.com 828-754-4660

While there,  Keith Nordan, the guy next door makes Brandy.. I have never ever liked  Brandy.. I would have bought it in a heartbeat.. Carolina Distillery Carriage House Apple Brandy, makes this wonderful Applle pie brandy carolinadistillery@gmail.com  828-499-3095. It would taste so nice on a cool night in the mountains.. I guess they would say it was 'moonshine country' and they know what they are doing.

Great Smokys

Great Smoky.. in the wrong place but I haven't figured out how to move them

So we left Lenoir and the Blue Ridge Mtns and headed for the Great Smoky Mtns.  We stopped at the National Forest, no hookups.  This is Cherokee country ad a big big tourist area.  This is not the time of year to be visiting, very humid.. but in the mountains under the canopy of trees it cools off.. not much. but some.  The mountains are very, very beautiful.It does, indeed, look like smoke in the mountains.  I was taking pictures of the Appalachian Trail ( I have walked on it in Vt. N.Y., N.J. S.C. Va.and now Tn.) and a lady, very seriously, asked me if it was really SMOKE! in the mountains.!! I did tell her no.