Three Visits, New Discoveries & Old Friendships: My Essex County Girls’ Getaway
- October 6, 2026
Some places you visit once. Others keep calling you back. Essex County is definitely the latter.
This was my third time experiencing Essex County, and each visit has given me something new to discover and even more reason to return.
For our annual high school girlfriends’ getaway, we spent the day exploring the wineries, farms, distilleries and breweries of this beautiful region. But what makes Essex County so special to me isn’t just what’s in the glass or on the plate. It’s the people behind it, the farmers, winemakers, chefs, brewers and producers who pour so much passion into what they do.
And after three visits, some of those people have become more than just people I meet along the way. They’ve become friends.