Stowe, Vermont City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Stowe, Vermont Travel Guide has been your connection to Stowe's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Stowe Tours: Ice Cream, Wine, Ciders, Honey and Cheese
 Stowe offers year round activities to keep even the most active person busy. While most people come to this bed and breakfast destination to enjoy its ski slopes, Stowe offers so much more. With the Ben & Jerry's plant in nearby Waterbury, you can sneak away for a factory tour while indulging in a few “free” samples made that day. Tour participants will get a glimpse at the Flavor Graveyard where ice cream flavors that produced poor sales are laid to rest, complete with their own tombstone and a white picket fence. Who says dessert has to come last? After tasting some unique ice cream flavors, continue your afternoon with wine tasting at the nearby Boyden Valley Winery. A 4th generation farm in the pastoral Lamoille River Valley, the Winery produces red and white wines, as well as Vermont fruit wines and hard ciders. How about tasting some fresh cheeses? In nearby Cabot Village, you may take the Cabot Creamery Factory tour and sample some of the region's best cheese as you learn about how cheese is made and about Vermont agriculture. Be sure to pick up some of their signature "World's Best Cheddar.” At the Cold Hollow Cider Mill in Waterbury Center, you may tour the old fashion mill, learning about the rack and cloth press method used, while tasting plenty of cider and taking home some apple-related goodies, from jellies and jams to applesauce and treats like their signature cider donuts. During the summer, view honeybees at work, producing some delectable fresh honey. |
