Late summer is the perfect time to explore the area wineries and distilleries. Les Trois Emme, a winery in Mill River, Massachusetts recently won several medals at the Northeast Wine Competition, so last Sunday afternoon I took the lovely 25 minute drive over. They offer a delightful tasting of five wines accompanied by appropriate hors d'oeuvres for $5.
This harvest season also visit Hilltop Orchards, home of Furnace Brook Winery, where you can pick your own apples, pears and plums, as well as taste their wines made from Northeast varietal grapes and their own apples. I love their French style hard cider.
And if beer and spirits are more to your taste, stop in any Saturday midday to watch the brew master at Chatham Brewing working on a batch of all natural beer, made the old fashioned way, with just hops, barley, malt, yeast and water!
All these vintners and brewers and more are members of the Hudson Berkshire Beverage Trail, and all are an easy drive from the inn. Plan a trip to Green River soon. You deserve it!
This 1830 Federal-style farmhouse offers
spectacular accommodations in seven romantic
guest rooms, many with fireplaces, deep-soaking tubs,
two-person showers or whirlpool tubs — in short, a superb place
for a romantic getaway, which you can customize
with specials
like our Tanglewood
package.
Guests return to our Hudson Valley
bed and breakfast year
after year, drawn by the Inn’s casual elegance,
its beautiful, tranquil setting overlooking extensive lawns and
gardens, and by innkeeper Deborah Bowen’s warm hospitality and scrumptious
breakfasts (described as “feasts” by The New York Times).
The Inn’s beautiful interiors feature family antique pieces, paintings,
prints and sculpture, and even Wi-Fi!
The Traveler’s Guide to the
Hudson River Valley says, “The setting near the Green River is sylvan and
relaxing…” Shaded by ancient sugar maples above a meadow
where Cranse Creek flows into the Green River, the Inn —
now in its twenty-first
year — is located
in the Hudson River Valley, in the foothills of the
Berkshires, between the Hudson River and western Massachusetts. It is a great
starting point for a wide
variety of activities and events, including not
only Tanglewood (summer home of the Boston Symphony) and the area’s
exploding cultural and music scene, but also theater, museums, and
historic sites such as the Norman Rockwell Museum, Hancock Shaker
Village, MASS MoCA, Olana, Naumkeag, Clermont, Berkshire Theater
Festival, Barrington Stage, and Jacob’s Pillow. Go to our Things to Do page to find these and many more
outdoor and cultural venues as well as links to Deborah’s favorite restaurants.
