Westport Rivers Winery

Saturday ended up being the perfect day to spend outside. In our case, we headed down to Westport, MA (on the water between Fall River and New Bedford). I had read a description of the Westport Rivers Winery and I was intrigued by the fact that they specialized in sparkling and white wines. As I'm not much of a wine drinker and instead, tend to enjoy champagnes and sparkling wines like cava and prosecco, I thought Westport would be a fun place to experience my first winery tour!

The weather couldn't have been better, mid-70's, clear skies and no humidity - which made it nice to pull up to the winery and see that we would be enjoying the nice weather in beautiful surroundings:

Westport Rivers offers two tours on Saturdays, at 1 pm and 3 pm. They both leave from the main office/store where you can also buy Westport Rivers wines and beer from their sister company, the Buzzard Bay Brewing company:

Our tour took us in front of the working grape vines:

It was cool to see grapes vines up close and personal:

After the free 45-minute tour came the fun part, the tasting! Seven dollars gets you a souvenir wine glass and a taste of six of their wines - three sparkling and three white wines:

While Amy and Phu found portions of the tour boring, they perked up at the tasting:


Andrew and I also had fun chatting with the guide and trying to distinguish the differences between wines we were tasting:

Although we didn't end up liking any of the wines enough to buy a bottle to bring home (I'm blaming this on my unrefined wine palate), it was a lot of fun to see a new part of Massachusetts while enjoying the summer weather.