Two sweethearts, two flasks of wine, a book of verse, and a cozy corner in the garden.

Nearly a millennia ago, Omar Khayyam wrote that little quatrain as his tribute to his four loves. Khayyam's rubáiyát has been reworded many times over the last thousand years--but I'm going to replace the cozy corner of a garden with a great ride, because I'm more about the drive than settling down in the garden. That, and my hay fever would get the best of me.

With this in mind, my buddy Jim Dina and I gathered our sweethearts, boarded the Chrysler Town & Country, fired up the Sirius Seventies and Eighties stations, and headed out. Our tank-of-gas concept was a wine tour of Berks County Pennsylvania.

I know what you're thinking: "Are you kidding? Driving a minivan to find wine in eastern Pennsylvania while listening to ABBA??!!" To quell your fears, Sirius didn't air one Abba song during our entire trip.

Pennsylvania's wine tourism trade has grown exponentially in recent years. The Keystone State now boasts 11 wine trails with 130 wineries spread across the Commonwealth. Berks, a diamond-shaped county in the state's east-central region, is in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country. In the middle of all this tradition, Berks County features more than its share of the wineries in the Quaker State.

Good wine carrieth a man to heaven. --Anglo-Saxon saying

We arrive at Clover Hill Vineyards & Winery (A) in Breinigsville shortly after they open. Operated by the Skrip family, the modern and airy showroom features a large gift shop full of wine-related novelties, such as bottle holders and cozies. While my wife and I are not new to wine tastings, our friends are on their first tour. Clover Hill provides the perfect starting point for the newbies.

After perusing the various bottle openers and cheese serving trays, we make our way to the tasting counter. Our sommelier Tina leads us through the 25 wines offered by Clover Hill, including holiday and bubbly varieties.

We quickly learn that the Dinas and the Fioranis have different tastes in wine. Tina adapts to our preferences, keeping the sweeter wines from the Dinas and the drier wines from us. The vineyard's white Riesling and the dry Vidal Blanc are our first purchases of the day.