Anything Wine posted a “how’s it going?” update from Jim Law at Linden Vineyards. To many, Linden is the bar to measure against when it comes to Virginia wines.
The whites sound like they’re off to a good start.
White wines from 2008 will be very mineral driven (similar to 2006) with bright acidity, [...]
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Piece ran today in the Washington Post about Oasis Winery and the long-running efforts to sell it off to anyone who will shell out a couple of million for a winery in Fauquier County.
The Oasis Winery in Fauquier County, one of Virginia’s oldest, has been on the market since May 2007 and is now selling [...]
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Washingtonian outlined four great winery trips in Virginia and Maryland.
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Purchased for $20 at The Wine Market. Golden yellow color, looking think and viscous in the glass. Smelled almost like an Alsatian Pinot Gris at first, but that gave away to lots of oak after a few minutes. Sharp, biting acidic taste which is out of character for a Viognier (vee-ohn-yay) so [...]
Sloughing our way through Dulles airport to our gate to take off to Frankfurt, I was happy to see a Vino Volo tasting bar sitting right next to our gate. Vino Volo began a push into airports in 2006 is up to nine locations including one each in Baltimore Washington International and Washington Dulles. [...]
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If you can brave the climb up the long and winding gravel road, Bluemont Vineyard offers one of the nicest views from any winery in the area. But I do mean climb - at times the little hatchback complained mightily at the incline.
You’ll be rewarded at the top with [...]
Sticking with the harvest/crush theme this week, Loudoun Valley Vineyards is getting in some grapes and looking for some volunteers to help out with Crush this weekend. Contact Bree Ann at the winery: 540-882-3375 for times, availabilities, and more details.
For the future, they’re revamping their website so that they can get the word out [...]
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Editorial comes out of the Roanoke times today about the Virginia law that demands that 45% of a bar’s sales must come from food and non-alcoholic beverages. If a bar wants to serve mixed drinks, the requirement is 50%. This puritanical law had the (intended?) side-effect that [...]
Virginiawine.org got a makeover. Looks pretty spiffy!
Gary Vaynerchuk took his Wine Library TV show down to Virginia this week and sent his thunder live over the Internet from La Grange in Haymarket, VA.
Right away he got down to business, calling out La Grange’s Pinot Grigio for the $19 price tag. “Nineteen bones for a Pinot Gris is pushing the high [...]
