Many local businesses have been struggling since the close of Conneaut Lake Park. We do everything we can to shop local and support local businesses. We are lucky to have Conneaut Cellars Winery nearby. Buying any type of alcohol in Pennsylvania is difficult. Wine and liquor must be purchased from a state store, which means a drive into Meadville. Beer can be purchased from beer distributors, which is fun because of the novelty of driving through and popping your trunk open for the case of beer. For some strange reason, beer can only be purchased by the case. Fortunately, we can skip the drive to the state store for wine since we have Conneaut Cellars in town.
Conneaut Cellars gets its grapes from the Lake Erie area, then it makes the wine in the Conneaut Lake winery. The Lake Erie area boasts the 2nd largest grape production in the country, just after Napa Valley. These are some grapes growing in front of the winery...
The winery rates its wines on a sweetness scale from 0 (not sweet) to 4 (very sweet). And, by very sweet, they mean very sweet. Even a 2 seems sweet to our California palates. We like to stick to the '0' wines, but the winery says that the sweeter wines are their most popular.
On a tour of the winery...
Making a purchase...
Looking from the winery to the lake...
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