In the twenty-five years since Barnsley Resort opened, the three-thousand-acre estate in Adairsville has preserved plenty of historical and natural treasures: boxwood parterres; miles of wooded hiking trails; the ruins of a circa 1840s Italianate manor built by the resort’s namesake, Godfrey Barnsley. “We also have Conifer Hill, a section of meadow showcasing an impressive variety of evergreen and conifer specimens,” says Barnsley’s president, David Friederich. “Godfrey Barnsley would be at different ports of call and bring back trees from his travels.” At the Swine & Wine Weekend (October 25–26), spirited tours take guests through that history, while dinners and tastings nod to the present. Between sessions on the clays courses or rounds on the Jim Fazio–designed golf course, Carey Bringle of Nashville’s Peg Leg Porker will smoke a whole hog and help lead a bourbon tasting.
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