The Curious Traveler

Wine Road Wonderland: Day 2

Posted by Shannon Switzer of GirlChasesGlobe Media in The Curious Traveler on March 30, 2013

Day 2: Alexander River Valley

The Vineyard Preserve

Medlock Ames winery has been left truly wild, offering modern insight into the valley’s homesteading past. Affable co-owners Ames and James have utilized less than a quarter of their land for growing grapes, donating the rest to a land trust to be used as wildlife corridors that allow animals passage to the adjacent Pepperwood Reserve. Ames, sporting horn-rimmed glasses and shaggy brown locks, said they see all manners of critters at the winery — fox, coyotes, rabbits, snakes, wild boar, great horned owls, even otters in their ponds....THE STORY CONTINUES...