点评:We (my hubby and I) booked a Cave Tour with Sparkling Wine Tasting for a Wednesday afternoon at 2:30pm at $90 per person. The website indicated the tasting included a variety of limited Schramsberg sparkling wines (five sparkling). The whole experience lasted around 90 minutes. We were shocked to learn that we were the only two people who booked this tour at this time so we had a private experience at the group price! What luck. We absolutely loved it!
Our tour was led by Francesca, who was very personable, fun, and knowledgeable. We learned a lot about Schramsberg’s viticultural and winemaking practices, which are carried out by hand: grapes are hand harvested, the wines are handcrafted, the bottles are stacked and riddled by hand in underground caves. The ceilings of the caves are dark and fuzzy, covered with lichen (wine cellar mold). The older the cave, the more lichen you'll see. It was very cool and sort of creepy at the same time while we were walking around waiting for it to fall on our heads!
The tour ends in their small gift shop and there are clean restrooms available. We ended up joining their Wine Club because we have had their sparkling wine before and really loved it. We live on the east coast of the US and not all of the types we tasted are for sale here. There was no "hard sell" or anything to join the club or to purchase bottles of wine.
Overall we had a fantastic time and would recommend this tour.
翻译:我和老公预订了周三下午2:30的洞穴之旅(含起泡酒品鉴),每人90美元。网站上显示品鉴会包含限量版施拉姆斯堡(Schramsberg)起泡酒(五款)。整个体验持续了大约90分钟。我们惊讶地发现,我们是当时预订此行程的唯一两个人,所以我们以团体价获得了一次私人体验!真是太幸运了!我们非常喜欢!
我们的行程由弗朗西斯卡(Francesca)带领,她非常亲切、风趣,而且知识渊博。我们了解了很多关于施拉姆斯堡(Schramsberg)葡萄种植和酿酒的实践,这些实践都是手工完成的:葡萄手工采摘,葡萄酒手工酿造,酒瓶在地下洞穴中手工堆放和筛分。洞穴的顶部阴暗而模糊,覆盖着地衣(酒窖霉菌)。洞穴越古老,你能看到越多的地衣。我们一边走来走去,一边等着它掉到我们头上,感觉既酷又有点吓人!
旅程的终点在他们的小礼品店,那里有干净的洗手间。我们最终加入了他们的葡萄酒俱乐部,因为我们以前喝过他们的起泡酒,而且非常喜欢。我们住在美国东海岸,我们品尝的葡萄酒种类并非都在这里出售。加入俱乐部或购买葡萄酒时,没有遇到任何“强行推销”或其他任何要求。
总的来说,我们玩得很开心,强烈推荐这次旅行。