Bob and I decided that after our long parish walk on Tuesday, we’d treat ourselves to a visit to the La Mare Wine Estate Wednesday afternoon— before a storm was to blow through Wednesday evening. We purchased tickets for the 3:30 tour and tasting.
The wine estate is 8 miles from the house. We decided to walk the 40 minutes to the downtown bus station for a bit of a mobile outing and then catch the number 7 bus for the almost 30 minutes to ride to the winery.
Bob found us a new route into town, so we could see some new sites. Some scenes from our walk.
by the Jersey Public Sculpture Trust.
The 2:40 bus towards the winery was fairly full. We arrived at the La Mare stop a little before 3:10 and then had a short walk down a country lane to the winery. Our timing was good, as we had just gotten checked in for the tour and sent to the cafe to await the start when the rain started. It was really coming down when we went to leave at about 5:15ish, but we had already decided that we would call a cab for the trip back.
but they make wine, cider, and liquor
as well as homemade chocolates and biscuits.
We were directed by sign to check in at the shop.
I prefer this to the usual image.
There were only four of us on the tour, as their season is winding down. Only their store will be open as of November 1. Maybe because of this we seemed to get a lot of extras. The tour description stated a tasting of 3 wines and their apple brandy cream liquor. We did get those, with the cream liquor served in small handmade chocolate cups, but we also got a small taste of their (hard) cider, a half a biscuit, a handmade cream-filled chocolate, and a small taste of fudge with another different chocolate. Crazy! The staff was very friendly, and it was a nice, relaxed tour with some very short films to explain more about the different processes. We highly recommend.
and watched the short (few minutes each) films.
The cab ride home was an event onto itself, with a very friendly, very chatty driver, who seemed to be able to navigate the narrow roads in the rain at a good clip even while not apparently looking in the direction of travel. I was happy to jump out of the car to feed the cats and let Bob finalize the payment and conversation when we got back to the house.
Peckish Travels 
One reply on “Ooh, La La Mare (10/22/25)”
Beautiful, sounds like a great day out, a little hair raising with the chatty cab driver 😂😂🥂👍
S.J.B
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