WINERIES AND VINEYARD TOURS Wineries offer vineyard tours and tastings. Visit America’s oldest winery, Brotherhood Winery (1839) in Washingtonville, New York State. In California, self-drive around Napa Valley, Yolo County and Sonoma. Other top wine regions include Willamette Valley (Oregon), Walla Walla (Washington State) and Texas Hill Country. FOOD TRAILS Enjoy cookouts along barbecue trails in Mississippi, North Alabama and Oklahoma. Enjoy cheese trails in Wisconsin, which makes 25% of all cheese in the U.S., and Vermont. Choose your toppings at 21 pizzerias on the New Jersey Pizza Trail, and shuck shellfish on oyster trails in North Carolina, Florida and Virginia. DRINK TRAILS Central Oregon’s Bend Ale Trail includes over 30 breweries and tasting rooms. Virginia has over 200 craft breweries and craft beer trails including the Beltway Beer Trail, with 25 breweries. Beer City Ale Trail in Grand Rapids, Michigan, features craft breweries in the city. The Kentucky Bourbon Trail now offers 60 destinations. FOOD AND DRINK FESTIVALS In July, the Taste of Buffalo is America’s largest two-day food festival, while the Maine Lobster Festival spans five days. New Mexico’s Sante Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta has been a hot September favourite for over 30 years. The Great American Beer Festival, in Denver each October, is the nation’s premier beer festival. FOOD AND DRINK VISIT YOLO COUNTY VISIT SLOCAL PETER ELLEGARD DARREN MCGEE-NYSDED PETER ELLEGARD VISIT FLORIDA CULINARY TOURS Sample local specialities on guided culinary tours. Foodies can take a chef-guided tour of Seattle’s Pike Place Market, explore the downtown Las Vegas food scene, enjoy signature dishes in New Orleans’ French Quarter, and savour tastings in New York City’s Chinatown and Little Italy and Miami’s Little Havana and South Beach. ALL IN GOOD TASTE 38 visitusa.org.uk
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