Despite the 100+ temperatures, I trekked from Columbia to Carroll County to bring you this report from the newly-inaugurated Carroll Wine Trail, which officially opened on July 7. All three wineries in the trail – Cygnus, Galloping Goose, and Serpent Ridge – are relatively new on the scene but are doing great things. More importantly, [...]
Updated The About page so that it accurately reflects our recent 100% increase in staff. Check out those good-lookin’ wine writers. Added The awesome WordPress Mobile Edition plugin made by San Francisco-based studio Crowd Favorite. Hats off to them, it works like a champ. Point your mobile device to vinotrip.com and contact me if your [...]
I never got into Norton. At wine fairs, people are always telling me that Norton (along with Viognier) is “Virginia’s grape.” The grape is far more common in Virginia than anywhere else. Perhaps because of some heritage thing, perhaps because it’s what is planted so it will continue to be the source of much of [...]
Chances are you’ve heard that wine grows well around Napa and Sonoma in northern California. You might even be familiar with the vineyards in central-southern California around San Luis Obispo north of L.A. But unless you’ve been there yourself, chances are you’ve never heard of the foothills wine country east of Sacramento, aptly named for [...]
The Associated Press is reporting that Pennsylvania whipped off a big one this month. The state is putting wine vending machines in grocery stores so that consumers can pick up wine and lettuce in the same building for the first time since (I am guessing here) prohibition. Sounds like a progressive move. Sounds like a [...]
Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr user Storm Crypt The Maryland Comptroller is hard at work holding hearings and meetings studying the effect that direct wine shipping will have on the shippers and retailers of Maryland. One of their goals is to draft a paper on issues surrounding direct wine shipping. A noble cause, indeed, [...]
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