This is the first in a series of posts highlighting The Williamsburg Taste the Trail Package that offers guests at Wedmore Place an opportunity to explore multiple award-winning wine, brews and even a mead unique to the Greater Williamsburg area. Enjoying a glass of wine inside your room at Wedmore Place, at the Gabriel Archer Tavern or anywhere on the grounds of Wessex Hundred is a given at The Williamsburg Winery. We invite anyone also interested in experiencing craft beer

Colonial Williamsburg is truly one big museum, but if you’re looking for art specifically during your stay at Wedmore Place, head to the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, essentially two museums under one roof. Before you begin your trek, make sure you enjoy all there is to see at Wedmore Place, which is full of the “finer things,” including period tapestries and furniture themed to various European countries. Reminiscent

Williamsburg Winery founder Patrick Duffeler has long touted the importance of reflecting in the woods of the Wessex Hundred Farm, home to thousands of majestic trees that he planted himself. His love of nature that dates back to childhood visits to the forest with his mother inspired his conservation efforts that began when he purchased the farm in 1983. Earth Day offers a time to celebrate that commitment that began long before the sustainability movement became en vogue. “

It’s no surprise that wine and art pair well together. After all, winemaking is an art in itself. Guests at the Williamsburg Winery can now savor both inside the Susan Constant Hall tasting room that will house an ongoing exhibit titled “Art at Wessex Hundred.” The 400-acre farm and its picturesque green space are the inspiration for 31 local artists, whose works will change with the seasons. The opening exhibit, “New Beginnings,” is essentially “an ode to spring,” says Mary