MARYLAND WINE TRAILS marylandwine.com THE STATE’S BURGEONING WINE SCENE HAS MUCH TO OFFER visitors who’d like to drink in the bucolic beauty of local vineyards. Six trails follow the journey “from grape to bottle” at 60 Maryland wineries. More than half of Maryland’s wine production comes from vineyards found along the Frederick Wine Trail, the central focus of which is a cluster of four wineries covering hundreds of scenic acres on the outskirts of Mount Airy. Just beyond Baltimore’s northern border, a Piedmont Wine Trail winds past horse farms and quaint country towns toward Maryland’s oldest winery ( Boordy Vineyard , established in 1945) and other nationally recognized wine operations. A Carroll Wine Trail bumps up against the Pennsylvania line as it links wineries located down the road from the state’s oldest wine festival, held each September at the Carroll County Farm Museum . The Patuxent Wine Trail includes seven wineries bounded by the Chesapeake Bay and the Patuxent and Potomac rivers, meaning pastoral splendor and outdoor adventures are always nearby. Other wine trails are found near Civil War battlefields in the Antietam Highlands and down the Eastern Shore on the way to oceanside beaches or bayside villages. Along with wine trails, a “Toast Our Coast” Delmarva Wine and Ale Trail links Eastern Shore wineries to breweries around Ocean City and elsewhere. + ©TIM TADDER Top: Maryland Wine Festival – Westminster . Above: Layton’s Chance Vineyard & Winery – Vienna . 54 | snps.gov/stsp nps.gov/stsp LAYTON’S CHANCE VINEYARD & WINERY
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