Way out on U.S. 74 in Monroe, Treehouse Vineyards is a sweet escape
ON THE THIRD DATE with the man I’ll one day marry, he asked me if we were lost.
We’d been driving for 45 minutes, southeast on Independence Boulevard nearly the whole way. The 25 miles of car dealerships, fast-food restaurants, and everything unromantic about that long stretch of asphalt between Charlotte and Monroe suddenly gave way to a two-lane, tree-lined road bordered with Southern homes so old, so beautiful, with porches so big, you wonder what movie they’re from.
“Are you sure we’re going to the right place?” Nate asked me, as he drove down Parker Street, a quiet neighborhood lane with a basketball hoop outside one house and speed humps down the way. We weren’t lost, of course.
I had planned the whole day just so, and as quickly as Parker Street turned to Bay Street, this Monroe neighborhood opened into a 35-acre, family-owned vineyard that makes some of the sweetest, most crisp muscadine wine you’ll ever taste. Nate smiled, and right there on that afternoon in May 2015, I knew there’d be a fourth date.
But I had always planned on that. You don’t take just anyone to Treehouse Vineyards.
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