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Custom Group Tours

Everyone has a great time on a PineyPower Tour of the Pine Barrens!PineyPower offers group tours for your club or organization. Tours can be half-day, full day or overnight. Arrive using your owned or rented motorcoach, or we can meet your vehicle at a clubhouse or other predesignated spot. If you have a small group up to 22, we can arrange transportation on a luxury mini-bus as well.

Cranberry bog tours

Our tours are FUN! You'll get to see cranberry bogs, (limited dates available), walk through an historic village, enjoy the Mullica River views, shop for local crafts, books, listen to local music, learn about the Jersey Devil, and find out why this area was so important during the Revolutionary War!

 

Many groups enjoy a visit to historic Batsto, where a private tour by one of the Village's knowledgable docents can be arranged.

 

Please call or E-MAIL for group tour date availability. - it's not too early to reserve a date for the 2010 cranberry harvest; dates are going fast!

Frog Rock Country ClubDining and overnight facilities, if required, can also be customized to your group's preference, from basic to luxurious.

E-mail or telephone (609-698-2501) Cathy at PineyPower with your request or questions, including your special interests or needs. In most cases, we'll have a per-person quote for you within 24 hours. Most park facilities are ADA compliant, but advance arrangements may be needed in certain situations. Please include your contact information. We are now taking reservations for April thru November 2010.

Wineries in NJ include several in the Pine Barrens"WINES OF THE PINES" group winery tours also available! Visit one or more wineries in the Pine Barrens, enjoy tastings, and have a delicious lunch and/or dinner! EMAIL Tours@PineyPower.com or call 609-698-2501 for details.

 

 

Overnight Tours

If your group is looking for a new and exciting overnight (or longer) getaway, PineyPower has a tour for you! Board your hired touring coach at your home location, arrive at your hotel in Ocean, Burlington or Atlantic County, or even Atlantic City, NJ, and let the fun begin!

Tuscany House at Renault WineryWe can customize a group tour (20 or more persons) to meet your needs! Please e-mail PineyPower with your group size, approximate tour date, and your length of stay - one day, overnight, 2 nights or more - accommodations will be provided according to your group's preference.

We'll send you your customized tour package, pricing, and general itinerary. Be sure to include a contact name and phone number, as well as any special requests your group may have. PineyPower and its associates are committed to make your stay and your Pine Barrens Tour a memorable, relaxing and fun experience. (Please remember - motorcoach is NOT included in our overnight tour package.)

Now taking reservations for 2010

 

The Elegant wine tasting room at Valenzano Winery
Pine Barrens
Winery Tour

A beautiful summer day greeted guests as the Pine Barrens Winery Tour bus headed towardsThe sampling - guests of the Pine Barrens Winery Tour try to decide on their favorites from Valenzano's many varieties of wine. Shamong and Valenzano Winery for a buffet luncheon, wine tasting and vineyard tour. During the ride out, most were surprised to learn of the magic the Pine Barrens offers, and will be taking additional tours to see more, this fall! But the real surprise for this great group of people was Valenzano Winery, a small but elegant vineyard located on manicured grounds on Old Indian Mills Road.

This area of Tabernacle and Shamong (Indian Mills) is "FARM COUNTRY." Huge fields of corn, fruit trees, and other crops owned by Russo's Farm Market and others; horses, and of course grapevines, fringed the roadside as we neared Valenzano's. Once we arrived, we were greeted by the caterer, Barbara Russell of "Best of Show Catering" and her assistant Betsy; and Tony Valenzano Jr., whose father founded the winery. Ooo's and ahhh's were heard as we walked into the impeccably landscaped patio abloom with flowers. Inside the tasting house, our delicious buffet luncheon awaited us, as well as many varieties of wine - dry reds and whites, semi-sweet wines including both red and white cranberry wine, and dessert wines, for sampling at our leisure.

Tony Valenzano dissusses viticulture with visitors to Valenzano Winery in ShamongOnce everyone had their fill of delicious chicken salad-stuffed croissants, roast beef, tuna, and ham sandwiches, wonderful home-made potato salad, fresh fruit and a delectable cookie tray (to nibble on with the dessert wines, of course!), Tony escorted us to the nearby grapevines.

He explained viticulture and the painstaking work of tending the vines. Tony talked of the topsoil in the area - over 8 inches deep - that is so important in the vines' growth. He told us that the main insect to bother these vines is the Japanese Beetle, but they are more beneficial than not, since they eat the leaves. The holes left by the beetles allow more sunlight to filter to the grapes - more sunlight means sweeter grapes and better wine! Almost ready for harvest, these Chambourcin grapes look good enough to eat!

 

Tony's pride in the vineyard was apparent as he discussed his grapes and the resultant wines. It's easy to see that much love goes into every bunch of grapes, and tasting Valenzano's wonderful wines confirms it!

 

 

 

 

The beautiful grounds of Valenzano Winery

If you're interested in a Pine Barrens Winery Group Tour, email tours@pineypower.com or call 609-698-2501 for more information

 

ABOUT PINEYPOWER LLC and Cathy Antener

PineyPower LLC is a member of the
Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce.

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The Pine Barrens is becoming a popular tourist destination. It offers history, nature, boating, camping, fishing, swimming, and most of all, peace and tranquility. It's important to families who live here, whether for a few years or many generations, that our peace and tranquility be preserved.A local lawyer or doctor won't look any different than his neighbor who works the land. Thousand dollar suits aren't what impress people of the Pines - taking care of nature and fellow man is what matters. To that end, it is important for you to know that as a visitor to our precious Pine Barrens, you should show respect for the flora and fauna, for the historical buildings or their remains, and show respect for the "locals". Walk and drive gently. Treat our Pine Barrens as you would want a visitor to treat your own home town - and your own family. Thank you.

 

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