Nashoba Valley Winery sits on a 52-acre hillside orchard in Bolton, producing fruit wines and hard ciders from the apples, peaches, and berries grown on the property. The tasting room looks out across the orchard, and in good weather the outdoor terrace fills up with visitors working through flights of apple wine and blueberry wine alongside a charcuterie board. The wines are not trying to be Burgundy — they are what they are, honest fruit wines from a working New England farm — and the best of them are genuinely good.
The winery also has a restaurant (J's at Nashoba Valley) serving New American food in a converted barn, which makes it possible to spend an entire afternoon here. In autumn, when the surrounding orchards are in full harvest and the foliage has turned, this is one of the most pleasant spots in central Massachusetts.